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Casey Dienel, who recorded as White Hinterland in the ’00s and ’10s, has announced their first album in eight years, My Heart is an Outlaw, which will be out October 17 via Jealous Butcher. The album was produced by Adam Schatz (Landlady), recorded in Los Angeles, NYC and Vermont, and features contributions from Hand Habits‘ Meg Duffy, Spencer Zahn, Carly Bond (Meernaa), and drummer Max Jaffe.
“Joy, especially queer joy, is revolutionary,” Casey says of the album, which was inspired, among other things, by My Own Private Idaho and Springsteen’s Born in the USA. “Even in the face of everything else, I wanted to show that happiness is still possible — and necessary…The heart has a mind of its own…It’s the thing holding you back that you have to set free on your own time, in your own way.”
The first single from the album is “Your Girl’s Upstairs,” a lovely slice of folk-rock. “I’m not a domesticated creature,” Casey says of the song’s themes. “During lockdown, I was cruising the apps. Overnight, it felt like everyone was ENM or poly or GGG, but still playing out the most toxic hetero main character storylines. We grow up thinking marriage will insulate us from loneliness or risk, but it’s independence that’s given me a sense of inner stability. Ultimately, 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.”
Watch the video below.
My Heart is an Outlaw
People Can Change
Seventeen
Your Girl’s Upstairs
I’m So Glad You Came
3 of Cups
The Butcher is My Friend
Turncoats
Outlaws
Junkyard Dog
Sucker
Tough Thing
English (US) · 