Casey Dienel Reveals New Single ‘Your Girl’s Upstairs’
- Curious For Music Team
- Aug 18
- 1 min read
Casey Dienel’s “Your Girl’s Upstairs” is the kind of song that rewires your brain on first listen.
It's intimate but expansive, brutal but graceful, and layered with enough nuance to warrant multiple revisits. The track offers a stunning reintroduction to an artist who has always worked in the margins, now claiming center stage with unapologetic confidence.
Dienel creates an aural atmosphere that feels both haunted and electric. The sonic palette—anchored by meg duffy's unmistakable guitar—evokes a cinematic roadhouse vibe, while the looped percussion builds a sense of restless movement. Every element feels intentional, from Spencer Zahn’s grounding basslines to Max Jaffe’s percussive flares.
But it's Dienel’s voice—clear, emotionally precise, and beautifully phrased—that carries the real weight. The lyric “She played house, played dead…” encapsulates a life spent shapeshifting for someone else's comfort. It’s a gut-punch of recognition for anyone who’s ever compromised themselves in love. Dienel’s gift is in balancing heartbreak with insight, never wallowing but always honest.
“Your Girl’s Upstairs” also brims with queerness—not just as subject matter, but as structure. It sidesteps traditional pop formulas in favor of something more fluid and real. This is music about real identities, real contradictions, real love. It’s romantic and anti-romantic at once.
More than a comeback, this single feels like a breakthrough. “Your Girl’s Upstairs” is a vital track in Dienel’s discography, promising an album that will be unflinching, ambitious, and alive. If this is the opening chapter of My Heart Is An Outlaw, the rest can’t come soon enough.
