Name: Mystic Familiar
Brand: Dan Deacon

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-WIG-419

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Colour

Black

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Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

887828041916

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

Artist

Dan Deacon

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

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.

Dan Deacon, composer and performer, returns with his new studio album, Mystic Familiar.

Following 2015’s Gliss Riffer, Dan embarked on a whirlwind of collaborative projects, scoring eight films, including Rat Film and Time Trial; collaborating with choreographer Justin Peck on dance piece The Times Are Racing; producing and co-writing with Ed Schrader’s Music Beat; and performing with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. While fulfilling, these projects all lacked one instrument: Dan’s voice.

During this time, solo writing became his personal oasis, taking on an exploratory new direction informed by his newly adopted therapeutic practices of self-compassion and mindfulness, daily prompts from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, and meditation to access an inner well of creativity as discussed by David Lynch in Catching the Big Fish.

The result is Mystic Familiar, 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic synth-pop, and Dan Deacon’s first record in which each song is built around a single thematic throughline. The titular character, 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.

These are songs that wield the profundity of a philosopher and the absurdity of a court jester, painting life as a psychedelic journey brimming with bliss and disruption, darkness and light. At once Dan’s most emotionally open record and his most transcendent, Mystic Familiar goes far beyond where his music has traveled before.

Mystic Familiar

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