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After "Aries", Dean arrived at a very important period of self-reflection, inner-healing and unavoidable growth.
Out of that came the decision to stop hyper-analyzing his work to try and win cool points with indie kids, Read more
Out of that came the decision to stop hyper-analyzing his work to try and win cool points with indie kids, Read more
After "Aries", Dean arrived at a very important period of self-reflection, inner-healing and unavoidable growth.
Out of that came the decision to stop hyper-analyzing his work to try and win cool points with indie kids, and just write whatever he felt like writing in the moment and accept that he likes what he likes.
The result was the list of possible songs for "Optimist Breakfast", a big bag full of different styles and influences all comingling and gelling together like disastrous metaphysical chili.
Motorcycles, cannabis (only where legal, of course), the sad tired eyes of defeated old men, the desperate low moan rifling through every American landscape as the future takes it's vicious hold on the neck of the already-dying American Dream, a piercing harmonica reflecting off the mountain trees and empty highways like the cries of a broken-hearted woman; all this swirled together into the series of folk-rock and country-rock vignettes Dean sings across this album.
Out of that came the decision to stop hyper-analyzing his work to try and win cool points with indie kids, and just write whatever he felt like writing in the moment and accept that he likes what he likes.
The result was the list of possible songs for "Optimist Breakfast", a big bag full of different styles and influences all comingling and gelling together like disastrous metaphysical chili.
Motorcycles, cannabis (only where legal, of course), the sad tired eyes of defeated old men, the desperate low moan rifling through every American landscape as the future takes it's vicious hold on the neck of the already-dying American Dream, a piercing harmonica reflecting off the mountain trees and empty highways like the cries of a broken-hearted woman; all this swirled together into the series of folk-rock and country-rock vignettes Dean sings across this album.
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Fear Your Death 3:140:00/3:14
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One Dollar Ring 3:110:00/3:11
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Roger McClain 4:580:00/4:58
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Praying 3:360:00/3:36
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Dennis 6:520:00/6:52
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Ira 2:150:00/2:15
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Magdelena Shudders 3:540:00/3:54
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Madison Avenue 4:290:00/4:29
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The first single released from Dean's new body of work, "Would You Like to Come In?" deals with a drug-induced vision, a nightmare and falling in love.
Recorded between Dean's old apartment in LA, Trent Berry's studio in San Francisco and Dean's mother's house in Florida. Written in about twenty minutes the evening before a small coffee shop gig in Ormond Beach, in a fit of nerves and compulsion.
Acoustics and bass recorded in a small bedroom in Los Angeles, drums in San Francisco (Hyde Street Studios) and electrics and vocals recorded in another bedroom in Florida
Written in late 2018, this track marked a turn in many ways for Dean. A long, psychedelic poem-song, "The Favor" captured a sense of gratitude for existence that Dean hadn't felt since childhood. It also helped signal the change to an older, folkier, vintage-styled approach that would characterize his writing output for the next long while.
Written on a borrowed guitar the week his grandmother died. Dean has dedicated this song to his Grandmother and his mother.
I was playing drums for a friend's project on a one-off show in Vegas back before Covid. After the set, a tall guy came up and said he liked my playing.
We stood outside for a while, chatting about life and music and he Read more
We stood outside for a while, chatting about life and music and he Read more
I was playing drums for a friend's project on a one-off show in Vegas back before Covid. After the set, a tall guy came up and said he liked my playing.
We stood outside for a while, chatting about life and music and he gave me the Cliff's Notes of his very wild life's story. Short version, he was a survivor of a suicide attempt by firearm and was partially paralyzed.
I asked if I could write a song about him, and he said yes.
This is the song that came out.
We stood outside for a while, chatting about life and music and he gave me the Cliff's Notes of his very wild life's story. Short version, he was a survivor of a suicide attempt by firearm and was partially paralyzed.
I asked if I could write a song about him, and he said yes.
This is the song that came out.
Written between the winter of 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio and the fall of 2018 in Daytona Beach, Florida, this album draws on themes of suicidal ideation, insecurity, depression, depersonalization and hitting bottom while also attempting to describe some of the ways to escape these traps.
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Aries 5:300:00/5:30
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Kool Aid 3:450:00/3:45
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Mouth Sounds 5:140:00/5:14
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Nothing 4:290:00/4:29
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What Then Do You Do? 5:030:00/5:03
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Be Like The Reed 6:310:00/6:31
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Psilocybin 5:030:00/5:03
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Wet Desert 5:290:00/5:29
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She Says 1:560:00/1:56
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It's A Beautiful Day 5:130:00/5:13
"In fact, nothing could be clearer. Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying." -Albert Camus
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Bears You A Child 2:320:00/2:32
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Big Sun 5:110:00/5:11
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Killing You 3:550:00/3:55
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Dhammaday 4:410:00/4:41
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Vegetation 3:090:00/3:09
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Nausea 4:200:00/4:20
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Idiot's Trick 3:010:00/3:01
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Calamine 4:370:00/4:37
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Life Is Simple 4:070:00/4:07
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Old Boy 4:250:00/4:25
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