
Dan Deacon announces new album with lively lead single "Sat By A Tree"
29 October 2019, 16:02
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
Dan Deacon has announced his new album Mystic Familiar, as well as sharing the energetic lead single "Sat By A Tree".
"Sat By A Tree" is the first single from Dan Deacon since last year's Time Trial score.
The new single arrives with a bug-infested video directed by Daren Rabinovitch and starring comedian Aparna Nancherla.
Mystic Familiar will be Dan Deacon's first studio album since 2015's Gliss Riffer.
Tracklist:
- Become a Mountain
- Hypnagogic
- Sat By A Tree
- Arp I: Wide Eyed
- Arp II: Float Away
- Arp III: Far From Shore
- Arp IV: Any Moment
- Weeping Birch
- Fell Into the Ocean
- My Friend
- Bumble Bee Crown King
"Sat By A Tree" is out now. Dan Deacon's Mystic Familiar record drops 31 January 2020 via Domino, and is available to pre-order now. He plays London's Scala on 6 February 2020. Tickets go on sale Thursday (31 October) from 10am GMT. Find out more.
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