Casey Dienel, the indie pop artist formerly known as White Hinterland, is back with their first new album in eight years. My Heart Is an Outlaw is out October 17 via Jealous Butcher. The Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has shared lead single “Your Girl’s Upstairs” along with a video directed by Alex Basco Koch featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the recording sessions. Check out that new song below.
“Your Girl’s Upstairs” features Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy on guitar and, lyrically, tackles the autonomous and emotional labor that goes into intimacy. “The whole point of my queerness is to live within an alterity, to invent my own future on my own terms,” explains Dienel. “I hate living with people, but I like loving on them. What’s a horny dad to do? These unreconciled contradictions inside duel it out, but none win. I am all of them: an incorrigible flirt, a romantic, a cranky homebody, and an unapologetic perv.”
My Heart Is an Outlaw follows 2017’s Imitation of a Woman to Love, which was released as Casey Dienel, and 2014’s Baby, which came out under their White Hinterland moniker. The 11-song LP marked a new embrace of collaborators for Dienel, who tapped Adam Schatz to produce, Spencer Zahn on bass, guitarists Carly Bond of Meernaa and the aforementioned Duffy, drummer Max Jaffe, mixing engineer Jake Aron, and mastering engineer Heba Kadry.
