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Spiderman Of The Rings (CD)

By: Dan Deacon (Artist)

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Dan Deacon Artist Snapshot:

While Baltimore-based electronic music artist Dan Deacon could easily be mistaken for a textbook outsider artist, the irreverent performer is actually an academically minded, university-trained composer. His cut-&-paste, electro-glitch approach results in highly danceable tunes heavy on absurdist quirks and childlike giddiness. His live shows quickly became legendary for their over-the-top energy, as well as for the sight of the undeniably goofy-looking Deacon attacking his setup of electronic gadgets with the gusto of the fiercest punk bands. He released his proper full-length debut, SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS, in 2007 on the Carpark label and continued to record and release material at a brisk clip.

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DISC 1 for Spiderman Of The Rings (CD) Album By Dan Deacon (Artist)
1   Woody Woodpecker
2   Crystal Cat, The
3   Wham City
4   Big Milk
5   Okie Dokie
6   Trippy Green Skull
7   Snake Mistakes
8   Pink Batman
9   Jimmy Joe Roche
 

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Review

Spin (p.92) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This one-man A/V club party makes low-budget electronic pop that's as bizarre as it is uproarious."
Uncut (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[P]retty fun...mainly because Deacon eases off the zaniness and hurtles through a number of manically uplifting hypermelodic chip-tune anthems..."
Uncut (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Dan Deacon has mixed up a background in avant electro-acoustics with a delight in gabba repetition and goofy textures, to produce a delirious psychedelic confit."
Q (Magazine) (p.115) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he 12-minute 'Wham City,' an odyssey into sweeping ecclesiastical harmonies and driven electro strangeness, perhaps best captures his oeuvre."
Clash (magazine) (p.107) - "[H]e mixes his compositions with quirky electronic pop. Humorous monologues, sped-up vocal samples and film sequences gurgle as he bashes the life out of his laptop. Throughout, Deacon is pushing sound to the limits..."

Title Note

As many concertgoers would attest, electronic music is not particularly visually engaging, at least as live music experiences go. Dan Deacon seeks to upend the high-minded seriousness of the avant-garde and inject a fair amount of goofiness and absurdist fun into his 21st-century version of the one-man band. Armed with dime-store toy keyboards, vocoders, and other circuit-riddled oddities, Deacon coaxes strange blips and squeals while happily singing along in a slightly demented fashion. SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS alternates between childlike whimsy and thrashing, hypnotic synth jams, like the Suicide-on-helium number "The Crystal Cat." Breaking with the staid, highbrow pretensions of much experimental music, SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS is a rollicking diversion into its lighter side.

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