Dan Deacon pondrá a la venta su álbum Mystic Familiar este 31 de Enero y que servirá de continuación al Gliss Rifter del 2015. Ahora ha estrenado la canción para el sencillo Become A Mountain y que está dividida en 2 partes; en la primera el narrador está aprendiendo a vivir en el presente sin las ansiedades de la vida diaria, mientras que en la segunda escuchamos a esta Mystic Familia ayudarlo con mantras».
El músico reveló que el disco lo escribió durante terapia y algunas sesiones de meditación.
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.
