“Dan Deacon hones his trademark fusion of electro-psychedelia and post-minimalism on Mystic Familiar.”
“prolific producer embarks on a trippy voyage of self-discovery”
“In over a decade of innovations and outside-the-lines musical thinking, we have never quite got to hear Dan Deacon’s voice. I’m not talking about the intangible representation of his creative character, but his actual, literal voice. Whenever the Baltimore experimentalist’s larynx-based vibrations have been captured, it has been after some process of distortion or obfuscation, to fit with the stra”
“On the Baltimore musician’s first album in five years, he finds inspiration in his daily meditation practice, but his songwriting sounds as antic as ever.”