Casey Dienel

album out yesterday

https://caseydienel.bandcamp.com/album/imitation-of-a-woman-to-love

just heard this for the first time and it's fantastic. the exact sort of ambitious synthpop album i really love and had been missing this year

this album rules

maura repping it in RS under-the-radar list:

Casey Dienel – who's also recorded as White Hinterland – takes on the feminine imperative with lacerating humor and fortress-of-sound synths on this stunner of an album, which includes the zipless-fuck mini-opera "High Times," the frantic rebuttal to fitting into "sample size" culture "Complicated Silhouette" and the paranoid synth-pop fantasia "Thrasher." Dienel's humor is honest and searing, and her songwriting is norm-averse. Imitation was a glittering rock hurled at femininity's funhouse mirror when it was released in May, and it only grew more vital as the year dragged on and more men behaving badly slithered out of society's firmament.

it was my number one album of the year
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/12/21/maura-johnston-picks-for-best-albums/hC89P5ZRNAxBKwQU1XBrMI/story.html

this album rules

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, December 21, 2017 10:04 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tom says he likes girls
who are fit but still eat good
fuck but don’t need love
dirt on their tongues but never speak up

tom says he likes girls
who aren’t afraid to be feminine
afraid to be feminine
yeah, that’s me

Still can't listen to this without listening to it 10 times in a row:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMrV5bGnZOA