Name: Mystic Familiar
Brand: Dan Deacon

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WIGLP419

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Black

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With Printed Inner Sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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PIAS

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Standard:20

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0887828041916

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

WIGCD419

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Jewelcase with 8 page Booklet.

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0887828041923

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dan Deacon

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Domino

Dan Deacon is an American electronic musician who was born on August 28, 1981. He hails from Babylon, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. With a background in classical training as a composer and musician, Deacon has established himself as a prominent figure in the electronic music scene.
Known for his unique sound and energetic live performances, Dan Deacon's music blends elements of electronica with experimental and avant-garde influences. His compositions often feature intricate layers of synthesizers, samples, and manipulated vocals that create immersive sonic landscapes.
Over the years, Deacon has released several critically acclaimed albums and EPs, including "Spiderman of the Rings" and "Gliss Riffer." His innovative approach to music production has earned him recognition within the industry and a dedicated fan base worldwide.

Domino is an independent label founded in Putney, South West London by *a694357* and his partner Jacqui Rice in 1993. The label initially focused on American acts such as *Sebadoh*, *Pavement* or *Royal Trux* before signing British acts in the late '90s.

The label operates a US division, located in Brooklyn, which output was initially identified by its own catalogue number schemes, DOMUS then DNO (used until 2013), when the releases handled by the UK headquarters are identified by WIG (albums) and RUG (singles and EPs) catalogue numbers.

The company operating the label, *Warp Records*, diversified, establishing a publishing arm and a series of labels (*Double Six Recordings*, *Weird World Record Co.*, *Rephlex*, ...).

With Mystic Familiar, Dan gives us the result of years of obsessive work, play, and self-discovery. It’s at once his most emotionally open record and his most transcendent, 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic synth-pop that exponentially expand his sound with unfettered imagination and newfound vulnerability.

Since 2015’s Gliss Riffer, Deacon has branched out into an array of collaborative projects including film scores to Rat Film, HBO’s Well Groomed, ESPN’s 30 for 30: Subject to Review; collaborating with the NYCBallet’s resident choreographer Justin Peck, LAPhil and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. While fulfilling, these projects lacked Dan’s singing voice. In the midst of that whirlwind of activity, he returned whenever he could to a personal oasis⁠—the songs that would become Mystic Familiar, informed by all these collaborations but built from within. Deacon’s writing took an exploratory new direction developed with therapeutic practices of self-compassion and mindfulness, daily prompts from Brian Eno’s deck of Oblique Strategies and the use of meditation.

These techniques produced songs that paint life as a psychedelic journey brimming with bliss and disruption, darkness and light. It’s a vulnerable shift in a songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and modulations. This voice-focused album is also the first record in which each song was built around one central concept—the Mystic Familiar, a supernatural other being that we carry with us everywhere in our head, which only we can hear and with whom we live our lives in eternal conversation. Mystic Familiar takes a propulsive leap with the robot-performed drums and soaring melodies of Sat By a Tree. Lyrically, the song conjures campfire reflections on key memories with the hard-won clarity of time, a dialogue with an anthropomorphic tree on chilling out, and befores and afters of life and death.

Mystic Familiar

Music GB

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