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- Date Released: March 14, 2006
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Pop
- Label: Hush Records / The Orchard
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On her debut album, Massachusetts native Casey Dienel spells Nellie McKay for a bit while the other brash young blonde piano player works through her record-label difficulties. Dienel isn't entirely McKay redux: the Broadway and hip-hop influences are missing on Wind-Up Canary, Dienel's piano playing sounds a little more boogie-woogie than cocktail jazzy, and her pre-rock vocal idol is more likely to be Edith Piaf than Doris Day. Still, Dienel's cutting lyrics about rueful love affairs ("Baby James," the Boston-specific townie romance "Frankie and Annette") and bizarre character studies (the album-opening "Doctor Monroe," a goofily surreal story about a drunk on a train) will feel comfortably familiar to McKay fans, and there's an undeniable vocal similarity on songs like the somewhat melancholy "Cabin Fever." To her credit, Dienel has a sparkling personality all her own, giving Wind-Up Canary a dry, mordant wit that's much less clever-clever than McKay's sometimes exhausting precociousness, and she's an impressively strong melodicist. Like McKay, Sarah Sharp and Sylvie Lewis -- even Dienel's Boston buddy Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls, to some extent, and yes, also Norah Jones -- Casey Dienel has updated the tradition of wide-ranging, jazz-influenced female singer/songwriters that's largely lain fallow since the heydays of Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell, and Wind-Up Canary is a compelling, highly enjoyable debut.
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Doctor Monroe |
4:34 |
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| 02. | |
Everything |
3:04 |
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| 03. | |
Baby James |
3:27 |
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Cabin Fever |
5:23 |
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| 05. | |
Frankie and Annette |
3:13 |
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| 06. | |
The Coffee Beanery |
4:54 |
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| 07. | |
Embroidery |
3:23 |
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| 08. | |
Old Man |
3:34 |
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| 09. | |
Stationary |
4:02 |
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| 10. | |
Tundra |
5:19 |
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| 11. | |
All Or Nothing |
3:58 |
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| 12. | |
The La La Song |
4:06 |
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12 Total Tracks, 48:57 Total Length
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Credits
- Jim Reynolds - Producer // Juliet Nelson - Cello // Juliet Nelson - Group Member // Michael Reynolds - Clarinet // Michael Reynolds - Saxophone // Casey Dienel - Piano // Casey Dienel - Vocals // Casey Dienel - Melodica // Casey Dienel - Producer // Casey Dienel - Artwork // Casey Dienel - Group Member // Christopher MacDonald - Percussion // Christopher MacDonald - Group Member
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