If you want to understand the music I'm making now, compare it to Aries and the answer may become clear to you.
I've written and talked and sung about my struggle with depression and suicide ad nauseum. When I…
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The first single of Dean's aesthetic rebirth from self-hating emo rocker to vision-focused singer/songwriter. Part mystical experience, part nightmarish memory and part love song, "Would You Like to Come In?" brings a sense of cohesion to three disparate ends of what it can mean to be human.
Available on all streaming platforms and BandCamp.
DEAN'S FULL GASTRAL TRAVELIN' EPISODE
Dean Batten Unplugged on Gastral Sessions
Dean rode his motorcycle down to Port Orange, Florida, for a chat, some good food and some music with the Gastral Travelin' podcast crew. Laughs were had, champagne was consumed and a good time was had by all. This video shows Dean's performances of "Would You Like to Come In?", "The Quiet Sounds of Sewing" and Matthew Fowler's song "Marianne", live in the podcast studio.
INDIEOCLOCK! BRAZIL REVIEW
Given to rock interview
Mystic sons interview
Dean's Super Manly Diary (Blog)
Still Breathing - a short tips tour retrospective
It's Dec. 12, 2022. 122222. I'm back home after a second week-long run up to Nashville through Alabama. The first one, in November, went pretty well. I managed to pick up enough spontaneous tips-gigs in coffee shops to keep eating…
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How I Wrote "Dennis" 
With many things, the reality is a bit more involved than we're ever quite able to reduce into language.
It's a conundrum that's confounded linguists and philosophers of language since those disciplines began to develop in earnest - my personal…
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How I Wrote "The Quiet Sounds of Sewing"
My grandmother died unexpectedly.
I was living in Los Angeles. It was 2019. I woke up one afternoon, checked my phone and saw multiple missed calls, a voicemail and a text saying "please call me when you wake up", all…
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How I Wrote "The Favor"
2018.
I'd just spent the last year or so pulling my hair out trying to finish Aries, a task I wouldn't complete for about two years yet. I'd also spent the last year or so pulling more of my…
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How I Wrote "Sky Pink"
Things got weird in 2020, as we all remember. For me personally, that meant added complications for my then-long distance relationship with Alexis back in Florida, because I was still living in LA. I found myself hanging out in Florida…
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How I wrote "Let 'Em Bleed"
I was walking around the guest bedroom of my mom's house in Florida, on a short trip back home while I was still living in LA. I had a small coffee shop gig the next morning at Gold Leaf and…
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How I wrote "Would You Like to Come In?"
I have a new song coming out on October 1st called "Would You Like to Come In?".
One night when I was still living in LA, I got the itch and started pacing around my tiny room trying to write…
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