White Hinterland - "Dreaming of the Plum Trees (live on Fair Game)". Casey Dienel's new project skips, scampers and slips. The piano's all Charlie Brown but here (as opposed to here) it's joined by a violin with older, wiser years behind it. Here we have an older sibling - someone to teach the girl who skips with bloody cut-up feet and a bloody cut-up heart through the body of the song. Someone to invite Ruby over, the snowy afternoon after Saint Valentine's Day, and to spend a few hours teaching her a new & herkyjerky way to dance.

The White Hinterland debut is out in March and I wrote all about it here... however much more urgently, I just heard that the band were the victims of a massive theft after a gig in NYC. You can read the details, but the long & the short of it is that some of the sweetest people in indie rock have been royally fucked by a skeevy asshole. If you're in any position to help, the band is very shyly taking donations through a Paypal button on this page.

[listen to the rest of the Fair Game session - thanks matthew]