Deer Scout's gentle introspections are the creation of New York native Dena Miller. She introduced her warm, articulate vocal delivery and folk-inclined melodies on a series of short-form releases in the later 2010s, including the minor viral hit "sad boy," before making her label debut in 2022 with the full-length Woodpecker.
The child of folk musicians (her father, Mark Miller, also made early video game music for Sega), Dena Miller grew up in Yonkers, where she began writing and recording her own songs in elementary school with toy cassette machine. She didn't start record...