Dan DeaconBest Dan Deacon Albums Ranked

Spiderman of the Rings

pitchfork

8.7

“Tapping directly into the great lineage of batshit bubblegum pop, Baltimore art kid Dan Deacon's Spiderman of the Rings is one of this year's happiest, catchiest, and weirdest records, repeatedly hitting pleasure centers with track after track of gleeful, electronics-infused hyperpop and candy-coated sound experiments. Plus, you can mosh to it.”

Bromst

pitchfork

8.5

“After breakthough Spiderman of the Rings, Dan Deacon returns with another great record whose palette is richer, the samples smoother, the space larger.”

Mystic Familiar

fantano

8.0

“Dan Deacon hones his trademark fusion of electro-psychedelia and post-minimalism on Mystic Familiar.”

Mystic Familiar

nme

8.0

“prolific producer embarks on a trippy voyage of self-discovery”

Mystic Familiar

loudandquiet

8.0

“In over a decade of innovations and outside-the-lines musical thinking, we have never quite got to hear Dan Deacon’s voice. I’m not talking about the intangible representation of his creative character, but his actual, literal voice. Whenever the Baltimore experimentalist’s larynx-based vibrations have been captured, it has been after some process of distortion or obfuscation, to fit with the stra”

Gliss Riffer

pitchfork

7.2

“The electro-disco lead single to Gliss Riffer suggested that Dan Deacon's first LP in three years might bring hooks and lighthearted mania back to the fore, but the album mostly just feels like a pared-back, intuitive way of working. As on all of Deacon's albums, it's the moments where he seems to be discovering something new that prove the most exciting.”