A rising third year at Oberlin College (Ohio, USA), Dena Miller spent the first week of her freshman year in her dorm room, writing her first songs. She found a home in the Philadelphia music scene and she released Customs,
Wonderfully candid and simple, this new Deer Scout track walks a wonderfully balanced tight rope between synth pop and dream pop. A tender, vulnerable vocal (“make my sadness interesting”), a under stated guitar line, and flecks of synthetics weaving in and out of the melody. The song is an immediately endearing and arresting one that plays to universal feelings of disjointedness and loneliness. The songs on ‘Customs’ are introspective, haunting and melodic. They were reflections on childhood and growing up.
The Fat Angel Sings 