| Baby | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | White Hinterland |
| Cover: | Baby (White Hinterland album).jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | April 1, 2014 |
| Genre: | Art pop, indie pop |
| Label: | Dead Oceans |
| Producer: | Casey Dienel, Alexis Gideon |
| Prev Title: | Kairos |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
Baby is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Casey Dienel's act White Hinterland, released on April 1, 2014, through Dead Oceans.[1]
Dienel made the ten-song album in a studio she developed in the basement of her childhood home in Scituate, Massachusetts.[2]
Rolling Stone gave the album three and a half of five stars, noting the vocal range Dienel displays on the album, "singing in operatic quivers, howling yelps, haunting harmonic layers and even full-on vocal fry without showing any seams."[3] NME also gave the album three and a half of five stars, saying Babys sound took previous influences and created something "warm-blooded, rich and at ease with itself. Something that takes the bits of Mariah – ‘Emotions’, ‘Fantasy’ – that didn’t make you want to kill children and wraps them up in the indie tastes of post-Dirty Projectors America." The review criticized the absence of a hook in places, but said "These are quibbles, though, given how much Dienel seems to be pulling ahead of her overcrowded field."[4] Reviewing the album in the Boston Globe, Marc Hirsch said, Baby "seems to construct itself as it goes, incrementally expanding from the bits and scraps of piano and multi-layered unaccompanied vocals of opener 'Wait Until Dark' and culminating in the rollicking, if skewed, roll of penultimate track 'Sickle No Sword.'"[5]