Deer Scout - "Peace with the Damage"
Photo by Felix Walworth Last month we sung the praises of Deer Scout, the musical project of New York City native Dena Miller. I described her previous single as folk meets bedroom pop. On "Peace with the Damage," Miller leans a little more heavily onto the folk side of things while still not quite landing in folk. This one is more of a folk adjacent singer/songwriter track. It also has one of the more interesting back stories you've heard in a while. Seriously. As Miller says: "'Peace With The Damage' is a song by my father, Mark Miller, originally recorded by my parents’ band, Spuyten Duyvil. My dad is one of my favorite songwriters and this is a song I always wanted to record even though it’s a little bit of an outlier on the album. It’s a retrospective song about the past and regret. We recorded it together as a duet with me singing both parts, 4 years apart, so it feels like a conversation between a past and present self. My dad played guitar and was ge...