The Act: DEAN MCMULLEN

The Album Release: ‘PART ONE'

The Formats: DIGITAL & COLOURED VINYL ALBUM

The Release Date: SEPTEMBER 2ND 2022

The Digital Link: ingrv.es/part-one-veg-e

The Physical Link: fiercepanda.co.uk/shop.php?release=739§ion=vinyl_albums

The Truth: Ex-city of Exeter singing songwriter Dean McMullen releases his superluscious debut album, 'Part One', on September 2nd, on all digital formats as well as limited edition coloured vinyl. It precedes a UK tour and a clutch of dates with Tim Burgess.

The fourth single to be released in the countdown to the 'Part One' album release was 'Christine'. Like its deceptively delicate predecessors, 'Clouds Hold Up The Sun', 'Migrating Birds' and 'Speechless', 'Christine' is a multi-layered musical extrvaganza lurking within an enigmatic melodic slowglobe. There are flashes of heroic rock guitars, dashes of bar room piano and hints of fragrant female harmonies as the sound gently ebbs and flows with bashful melodies breaking out of the kind of lush musical orchestration last heard on an ELO b-side circa 'Out Of The Blue'.

If peddling a sound which ambles somewhere between Elliot Smith and Mercury Rev makes him sound like the introspective sort then rest assured that Dean has deftly clocked up enough muscular motorway miles to unnerve the average RAC trooper. Raised on a steady diet of punk rock in Exeter – local heroes The Computers were a special teenage kicking delight – and now based in the Netherlands, his is a tale of incessant gigging as guitarist in oft-loved Muncie Girls interspersed with the odd stint on the slightly more salubrious tour bus circuit as tech for the likes of Tim Burgess and Baxter Dury.

Meticulously produced by Gethin Pearson (Kele Bloc Party, ALMA, whenyoung) with Simon Dobson (Bring Me The Horizon, Parallax Orchestra) on the superluscious arrangements, 'Part One' is a triumphant collection of sweeping melodies and swooping strings – one part pure ‘Snowman & The Snowdog’ escapism, three parts road-tripping reality. It’s a good balance in an off-balance world, and it is the fourth of four releases as part of the fierce panda Albums Club following in the footsteps of Chili Palmer, Enjoyable Listens and Scrounge.

Dean McMullen kicked off the year with a solo live show at Pandamonium! at The Victoria in Dalston and spent the summer supporting Tim Burgess when he wasn't playing his own shows at 2000 Trees festival. Next up come these dates here.

September headline tour
06 - Newcastle - Little Buildings
07 - Keighley - The Exchange
08 - London - The Old Blue Last
09 - Hastings - The Piper
10 - Brighton - The Hope
11 - Trowbridge - The Pump
14 - Exeter - Cavern
16 - Newport - Le Pub
17 - Bristol - Exchange Basement
18 - Southampton - Suburbia

October
14 - London - The Matchstick Pie House

November
8 - Bristol - Fleece (with Tim Burgess)
9 - London - Lafayette (with Tim Burgess)
10 - Manchester - Gorilla (with Tim Burgess)

For full details and tickets visit here:

deanmcmullen.com