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DAN DEACON - Spiderman Of The Rings
| PitchFork | | I first saw Dan Deacon play live in August 2005, just after I moved to Baltimore. The occasion was a "bridging-the-gap" measure at a local loft space to foster unity between the city's art-damaged noise kids and its breakbeat-loving club kids. By the time I arrived, a balding, baby-fattened fellow with a patchy Brillo frizz of beard was unraveling a mess of electronics on a table in the middle of the dancefloor. And once all the plugs were plugged and the jacks were jacked, this man, Dan Deacon, turned himself on....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | What is this happy music?”
My father, standing on Michigan State’s campus last summer during a banjo workshop, explained the sounds to a largely confused foreign student. Dan Deacon probably won’t ever strike anyone as a musician for the ages, but had he been born a century back in hilly Pennsylvania, it’s difficult to imagine him not ending up with a banjo on a porch, social, smiling, approachable. Instead, Deacon is a fixture on Baltimore’s burgeoning noise/pop scene, and the most visible member of the Wham City collective. After a half-dozen or so albums, he’s finally on the verge of breaking through with the giddy, triumphant mass of sound that is Spiderman of the Rings....full text |
| | DustedMagazine | | On first glance, Dan Deacon is the kind of dude you'd see working at that dingy video store in the forgotten part of town. He's medium height, slightly balding, wears oversized spiderman shirts that are completely threadbare and his green, plastic eyeglasses are held together with duct tape. His outfit is so outrageous that it starts out being slightly creepy…then you realize that maybe it's ironic, but in the end, no…it's mostly creepy....full text |
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