{"id":974394,"date":"2020-01-13T19:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937235"},"modified":"2020-01-13T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T02:54:20","slug":"hear-dan-deacon-seize-the-day-on-pensive-new-song-become-a-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-dan-deacon-seize-the-day-on-pensive-new-song-become-a-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Dan Deacon Seize the Day on Pensive New Song \u2018Become a Mountain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dan Deacon<\/a> reflects on mortality and productivity with his pensive new song \u201cBecome a Mountain.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI rose up, tired in my flesh; getting old now\/I\u2019m so lucky, yet I forget\/I\u2019m still hungry for the future,\u201d he gently sings over choppy piano chords. \u201cOn this day before me, will I seize it or scroll? All of time is right here, is right now.\u201d The track builds with layered keys, crescendoing as synthesizers rise into a symphonic swirl. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecome a Mountain\u201d appears on Deacon\u2019s fifth official LP, Mystic Familiar<\/em>, out January 31st. The album, which also includes lead single \u201cSat By a Tree,\u201d follows 2015\u2019s Gliss Riffer<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, the experimental artist notes that \u201cBecome a Mountain\u201d outlines the LP\u2019s conceptual framework of a \u201cNarrator and their Mystic Familiar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur Narrator, in the opening verse and choruses, is trying to learn how to be self-compassionate, to live a life in the present while being able to deal with self-doubt and anxiety in a lifetime of great flux and foundational transformations,\u201d he writes. \u201cMeanwhile, our Mystic Familiar, in verse two and the pre-choruses, tries to help guide the transformations of our narrator through mantras coaxing me to be present in the now, even while also being an element of chaos itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Deacon will promote the record on a North American tour that launches February 26th in Charlottesville, Virginia and runs through early May. Prior to that trek, he\u2019ll play a brief run of international dates, starting with a January 30th album release show at London\u2019s Rough Trade East. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dan Deacon reflects on mortality and productivity with his pensive new song \u201cBecome a Mountain.\u201d \u201cI rose up, tired in my flesh; getting old now\/I\u2019m so lucky, yet I forget\/I\u2019m still hungry for the future,\u201d he gently sings over choppy piano chords. \u201cOn this day before me, will I seize it or scroll? All of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:01:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}