Dan Deacon New single 'Become A Mountain'
Today, Dan Deacon releases “Become A Mountain,” a new single/video from Mystic Familiar, his forthcoming album out January 31st on Domino. Following lead single “Sat By A Tree,” album opener “Become A Mountain” is a startlingly vulnerable shift in a songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and distorted vocals. For the first time ever on record, Deacon presents his natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only minimal, all-acoustic accompaniment. Its animated video was created by Spain-based studio Rapapawn.
On the track, Dan said: "During the 4 years over which I composed the songs that became Mystic Familiar, I began going to therapy and started a meditation practice. I felt raw and vulnerable while making this album, and I wanted the music to reflect that.
Like many people who’ve been in a dark mindset for a long time, self-compassion and non-judgmental thinking were a real challenge for me, entirely new habits that needed to be learned basically from scratch. When I would try to embrace having positive thoughts, they didn’t feel like my own, but rather another entity’s thoughts trying to speak to me. While writing, I began thinking of these thoughts as a Mystic Familiar (my own personal supernatural companion) trying to communicate with me. Externalizing the thoughts made them easier to fully realize and reflect upon.
Since 2015’s Gliss Riffer, Deacon has scored eight films - including recently-released HBO Documentary, Well Groomed, and ESPN Films 30 for 30 Short “Subject to Review,” collaborated with the NYC Ballet’s resident choreographer Justin Peck on The Times Are Racing, which will be performed again in February by Chicago’s prestigious Joffrey Ballet, and performed expanded arrangements of his music with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. These collaborations have had a great impact on Mystic Familiar.
Pre-order Mystic Familiar:
- Dan Deacon Releases New Single/Video, “Become A Mountain” – Watch HERE
- Mystic Familiar Out January 31st on Domino
