| Phylactery Factory | |
|---|---|
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | March 2008 |
| Recorded | February 2007 |
| Genre | Indie pop |
| Length | 48:57 |
| Label | Dead Oceans |
| Producer | Adam Selzer |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Les Inrockuptibles | Favorable [1] |
| Pitchfork |   [2] |
| PopMatters | [3] |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
Phylactery Factory is the second album by American singer-songwriter Casey Dienel, but the first under the White Hinterland name.
The album, written by Dienel and produced by Adam Selzer, [3] was released on March 4, 2008, from independent label Dead Oceans.
The album received predominantly positive reviews. At Pitchfork , the album received a 5.8 rating out of 10, one of its few mixed reviews, with Stephen M. Deusner writing: "Phylactery Factory is a more ambitious, more professional, and more complicated record" than Dienel's first record, "with dark jazz-pop flourishes and compositions heavy with words. It is, however, not quite as rewarding." [2] By contrast, leading French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles described the album as "the spirit of US songwriting in all its humble splendor"; like Deusner, Les InRocks critic Richard Robert described the project as "ambitious" but Robert found it "impeccably realized throughout the album, which, like Dienel's fluttering voice, breathes into every measure a fragrance of freshness rarely found in music with synthesizer." [1] At AllMusic, Stewart Mason gave the album four of five stars, calling the album "a varied, endlessly listenable album" in which "the four-piece band is supplemented by perfectly deployed horns, strings, vibes, and other instruments (including, on 'Hung on a Thin Thread,' what sounds like a musical saw), giving the album a musical depth that matches perfectly with thoughtful songs like the heartbreaking the-war-at-home narrative 'Hometown Hooray' and the jaundiced, romantic ruminations of 'Dreaming of the Plum Trees.'" [4]
Mason as well as Matthew Fiander reviewing at PopMatters noted the success of Phylactery Factory as a second album for Dienel. Fiander wrote: "Phylactery Factory, and the move to White Hinterland, is a huge step forward for Casey Dienel. As a 20-year-old singer a couple of years ago, she showed promise with her first record. Here, by making the move to full band at the right time, she has fulfilled a good deal of that promise much earlier than anyone expected. This is a confident, well-executed, endlessly beautiful record." [3]
All songs written by Casey Dienel. [4]
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L'esprit du songwriting US dans toute son humble splendeur...ambitieux, mais impeccablement réalisé tout au long d'un disque qui, comme la voix papillonnante de Dienel, exhale à chaque mesure un parfum de fraîcheur rarement porté par les musiques de synthèse.
