Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Casey Dienel has had a couple musical lives. They began by releasing work under their own name, then took on the White Hinterland moniker for a few albums, and is now back to their given name with a brand new record.

My Heart is an Outlaw is out October 17 via Jealous Butcher Records, and is Dienel's first-ever album recorded in a proper studio.

With the news comes first single, "Your Girl's Upstairs", and you can check out the video, directed by Alex Basco-Koch, below:

My Heart is an Outlaw, which promises themes of "freedom, queerness, memory, and radical presence," was recorded with an illustrious crew: producer Adam Schatz (Japanese Breakfast, Neko Case); bassist Spencer Zahn; guitarists Carly Bond and meg duffy (aka Hand Habits); and drummer Max Jaffe. It is the follow-up to 2017's Imitation of a Woman to Love, which was also put out under their real name.

Dienel – who spent several years working on this set of songs in LA, NYC, and Vermont – had this to offer as the new album looms:

"The whole point of my queerness is to live within an alterity, to invent my own future on my own terms. I’m not a domesticated creature. 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."

Dienel says the record was inspired by a myriad of things, including classic records like Born in the USA and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho. "Joy, especially queer joy, is revolutionary," they expand. "Even in the face of everything else, I wanted to show that happiness is still possible — and necessary."

My Heart is an Outlaw is out October 17. Preorder here. Full tracklist:

1. People Can Change
2. Seventeen
3. Your Girl's Upstairs
4. I'm So Glad You Came
5. 3 of Cups
6. The Butcher is My Friend
7. Turncoats
8. Outlaws
9. Junkyard Dog
10. Sucker
11. Tough Thing