View basket “The Old Woman’s Dance” has been added to your basket. Woodpecker Deer Scout SKU: CAK162LP Barcode: 677517016215 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Carpark Records Released Date: 8th April 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Dena Miller grew up on a diet of folk before spending 6 years writing and exploring projects through Philly’s punk scene, Oberlin’s conservatory experimentalist and NY’s DIY history before arriving at her debut album ‘Woodpecker’ . Think Waxahatchee, Told Slant & Moldy Peaches… Deer Scout’s debut full length Woodpecker is a record about memory and the subconscious. And like an unforgettable dream that keeps you puzzling over its riddles for days, it’s as packed with direct symbols as it is with ruminative haze. “I approach songwriting as a process of boxing things up, or putting away a time capsule,” explains front person Dena Miller, who wrote the album over a period of six years. It’s a culminating collection of the project’s many sounds and influences to date, from Philly’s punk cooperatives to Oberlin’s conservatory experimentalism to New York’s DIY history. At the center is Miller’s assured guitar fingerpicking and boldly clear voice, firmly grounded even as it gently probes uncertain emotional and musical terrain. Raised by two folk musicians in Yonkers, Miller began recording songs as Deer Scout her freshman year of college in Philadelphia. There, she wrote Woodpecker’s earliest song “Synesthesia” about a train ride home from a basement show: “Night in the city / Big house on the corner / Her voice has the timbre of summers ago,” recalls Miller resonantly. After Miller’s transfer to Oberlin College, Deer Scout began touring DIY venues around the country and sharing stages with favorite artists including Waxahatchee and Told Slant. The twinned intimacy and intricacy of those two influences is reflected in the carefully adventurous arrangements on Woodpecker, which features, among other contributors, bass from close collaborator Ko Takasugi-Czernowin, cello from Zuzia Weyman, drums from Madel Rafter, and guitar from Miller’s father Mark—who also wrote the song “Peace with the Damage” and originally released it with his band Spuyten Duyvil in 2011. Many of the songs on Woodpecker were written during periods of grief or change. “I used to sing myself to sleep as a baby and I think music still plays the same role in my life—it’s a way of self-soothing or seeking comfort,” explains Miller. “But there’s also part of it that comes from wanting to connect with people.” Recorded and mixed primarily by Heather Jones at So Big Auditory in Philly with overdubs by Miller at home, Woodpecker is an exercise in portraying the incommunicable. “Cup”—about a relational psychology test called “a walk in the woods” that turns encounters with symbols into meaning—uses watery arpeggios, wintry strings, and roving bass to create a liminal sonic space, optimistic but tense. “Cowboy,” with airy layers of acoustic guitar riffs and Miller’s charmingly double tracked voice, takes its little fish, big pond inspiration from the character Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy. And “Afterthought,” with its unexpectedly bright resolutions, is about God, love, and the complexity of empathy; “Heaven isn’t watching us,” sings Miller candidly over pedal steel. Though Woodpecker is a record about uncertainty and the unknown, it’s also about compassion and connection—as Miller was able to find over the course of writing and recording this next chapter for Deer Scout and first release for Carpark, which she’s excited to at last share with the world. Artist Deer Scout Genre Folk Label Carpark Records Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Cup Cowboy Synesthesia Kat and Nina Peace with the Damage Dream Breaking the Rock Afterthought Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Pete Seeger American Game And Activity Songs For Children Folk | Mr Suit | 1LP Released 30th January 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pete Seeger American Game And Activity Songs For Children £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Mr Suit SKU: SUITABLE1311 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Louisa Stancioff When We Were Looking Folk | Yep Roc | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th April 2024 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Louisa Stancioff When We Were Looking £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Yep Roc SKU: LPYEP3074C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Judy Dyble & Andy Lewis Summer Dancing Folk | Acid Jazz | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th August 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Judy Dyble & Andy Lewis Summer Dancing £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Acid Jazz SKU: AJXLP416 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles Keys Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 9th April 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles Keys £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC784 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th April 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Shorty LeBlanc The Great Shorty LeBlanc Blues | Goldband | 1LP Released 30th November 2022 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Shorty LeBlanc The Great Shorty LeBlanc £20.00 Genre: Blues Label: Goldband SKU: nn254314 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Vashti Bunyan Heartleap Folk | Fat Cat | 1LP Released 6th October 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vashti Bunyan Heartleap £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fat Cat SKU: FATLP131 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Jimmy Buffett High Cumberland Jubilee Folk | Barnaby Records | 1LP Released 28th April 2022 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jimmy Buffett High Cumberland Jubilee £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Barnaby Records SKU: nn241396 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Alexander Tucker Third Mouth Folk | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 2nd April 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alexander Tucker Third Mouth £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL297LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trembling Bells Dungeness Folk | Tin Angel | 1LP Released 30th March 2018 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trembling Bells Dungeness £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tin Angel SKU: TAR082LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Voices of a Generation Folk | Not Now Music | 2LP Released 1st October 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Voices of a Generation £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Not Now Music SKU: LPNOT2LP173 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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