Casey Dienel Introduces Her New Album With ‘High Times,’ A Glitzy, ’80s Glam Ode To One Night Stands

Casey Dienel aka the woman behind the dream-pop act White Hinterland has finally returned with a new album under her own name. Her last release was 2014’s Baby as White Hinterland, and well, the new Casey Dienel album Imitation Of A Woman To Love is a far cry from that. It will be out this spring on May 18 as the debut release on Dienel’s own newly-launched label, Paddle You Own Canoe Society, and she’s kicked off the record with an enormous, blown-out glitz pop single that is the kind of deafening return that’s impossible to ignore.

“‘High Times’ contains some thinly veiled metaphors, one wild night in Palm Springs, and it was a sh*t ton of fun to make,” she wrote of the track. “I produced and played everything at my studio in Massachusetts.”

Driven by an insistent spear of strings and Dienel’s crushed-velvet voice, the track is a play-by-play of a trip out of town that’s part recovery from past heartbreak and part pure carnal urges. The whole thing has the kind of epic quality of a Dylan song, but it’s sung from the perspective of a woman who is looking to get laid and live in the moment. I don’t need to lay out for you how rare it is for a woman to be the sole producer on a song this complex and layered, but the way she balances all noise-pop elements with her own powerhouse voice is one of the most singular things I’ve heard this entire year — the entire record follows up with much of the same. Watch this release, it’s going to be massive.

Imitation Of A Woman To Love is out 5/18 via Paddle You Own Canoe Society.

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