Blog: The Rawking Refuses To Stop!

The cynical part of me thinks White Hinterland's rebirth as a dubstep-tinged neo-Kate Bush is the result of the inexplicable success of acts like Bat For Lashes and the ongoing Cute British Keyboardists movement. That, and the Casey Dienel-fronted band's debut was a rare thing – gentle but biting jazz-folk far too fresh and wild for Starbucks-swilling Feist listeners. (Myself, um, excluded.) But what we've lost in the coffee shop department, we've gained in everything else: "Icarus," the first single from White Hinterland's March-due Kairos , is a serious songwriter's answer to the dark electro evocations of [...]

• White Hinterland - wh-icarus.mp3