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Three Imaginary Girls Review January ‘06
…Wind-Up Canary succeeds in being an album where you feel like the singer is opening herself to you, the listener, as if you are an old friend…You feel like she's singing straight to you. That quality is something many artists lack and it's hard to create — you either you have it or you don't. Casey has it in spades…
TimeOut New York January ‘06
“Dienel spent New Year's Day moving to Clinton Hill from Boston, where she'd been studying classical composition at the New England Conservatory before "taking a deferral" last May. Even if that's slang for "dropping out," her parents shouldn't worry: Dienel is a magnetic addition to the city's musi--cal landscape, pounding away at the piano while singing her offbeat pop songs. In March, Hush Records will release her debut, Wind-Up Canary, which she recorded in rural Massachusetts. "The problem with classical music is, it's all attitude," she says. "Everybody acts like it's a dead art. And why would I devote my life to anything that's dead?"
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/Details.do?xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/538/features/the_06_pack.xml
www.saidthegramophone.com March ‘06
[Wind-Up Canary is] such a bluebird album, eggs cracked into bowls and ice melting on the porch…But I love so much what I wrote before - that Casey sings her song and then figures out how to sing it better. She plays the piano, singing, singing, words about peaches and clementines and regret..and then she realises that the tangled-up things she's trying to say…There's a better way: just some "la's", high and reaching, and then a final one, low and sure.
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/clementine_season.php