Mystic Familiar

by Dan Deacon

Mystic Familiar cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 January 2020
  • Label: Domino
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:07:59
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 12 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

For his fifth studio album, the Baltimore-based electronic composer notably features his own raw, unpitched vocals for the first time throughout the tracklist. The record maintains his signature frantic, maximalist synth arrangements while exploring deeply spiritual themes of meditation, the natural world, and confronting mortality. It features a sweeping, four-part centerpiece sequence titled 'Arp' that anchors the album's chaotic joy.

Genres

Descriptors: electronic, Synth-heavy, maximalist, orchestral, glitchy

Tracklist

  1. Become a Mountain (4:05)
  2. Hypnagogic (1:33)
  3. Sat By A Tree (4:26)
  4. Arp I: Wide Eyed (2:07)
  5. Arp II: Float Away (3:42)
  6. Arp III: Far From Shore (4:35)
  7. Arp IV: Any Moment (1:41)
  8. Weeping Birch (4:22)
  9. Fell Into the Ocean (4:31)
  10. My Friend (5:14)
  11. Bumble Bee Crown King (7:23)
  12. Become a Mountain - Edit (3:36)
  13. Sat By A Tree - Edit (3:54)
  14. Arp I: Wide Eyed & Arp II: Float Away - Edit (4:18)
  15. Arp III: Far From Shore - Edit (3:58)
  16. Fell Into the Ocean - Edit (3:59)
  17. My Friend - Edit (4:25)

Credits

  • Andrew Bernstein - alto saxophone
  • Rose Burt - baritone saxophone
  • Peter Kibbe - cello
  • Dustin Wong - guitar
  • Cristina Daura - illustration
  • Jeremy Hyman - percussion
  • John-Mike Reed - synthesizer
  • Patrick Edwards - synthesizer

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