Album Notes

With her full-length debut, Truths and Other Stories, Dinah was inspired to create an old-fashioned album that tells a story from beginning to end - from Mike Parson’s anarchic cover art, to the expansive stereo mix, to the winding ride from one track to the next. The album has two distinct parts: a faster, harder, party disc, and a disc of sparser, more lyrical folk songs. And yet Truths and Other Stories as a whole is propelled by themes of urban alienation and resistance, of love and lust, with Dinah on vocals, beats, keyboard, guitar, ukulele, and harmonica.

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" . . . deep lyrics and melodic beats that remind of The Organ, or even a lighter Portishead but with more humour and more pop." - Lina Harper, Xtra

“Thorpe's whimsical songs, accompanied by gentle ukelele or guitar, are offset by her gorgeously deep and weary alto. Fans of the Indigo Girls or Portishead's Beth Gibbons will eat this lady up.” - Alison Lang, The Coast

"Toronto's Dinah Thorpe understands the line between fact and fiction. Her double disc Truths and Other Stories straddles this divide. Produced, mixed and mastered by the artist, Thorpe layers her ethereal vocals over club-worthy beats. (Imagine Dido if she were a dyke.) Academically minded, much of Thorpe's material dives into queer theory and gender politics. But she takes a fresh approach with "We Brought the Thunder," and "Milk the State Remix," bringing a splash of humour and a good dance beat. As a kid Dinah hated her name, but grew into it---"Someone's in the Kitchen," shows such evolution. "Strap Me In," toys with being provocative, though it's more about having a baby, rather than making babies." - Shannon Webb-Campbell, The Coast