Dead Friends, Shawn David McMillen [Tompinks Square Records]
Tracklisting:
| 1. Walking Home (At The End of the Night) |
| 2. For Carrie Brown |
| 3. The Moth |
| 4. No Time Left In This Place |
| 5. Night Train |
| 6. A Morning With Dead Friends |
| 7. Frankensteins Kiss |
| 8. Our Weather |
| 9. Beladona Along The Brazos |
| 10. Every Eye |
Shawn David McMillen is one of many under-acknowledged presences from a Texas psychedelic music scene most notable for spawning Charalambides. McMillen has crossed paths with several members of said outfit, forming Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast with Heather Leigh Murray (now of Taurpis Tula) and playing in The Friday Group with Tom Carter; he is also a member of Rubble and Iron Kite. Catfish is McMillen’s debut solo album and it shares the peculiar sense of temporal and topographical resonance that exemplifies the soporific, glazed music created by artists from Texas. Through their music references psychedelia (a notionally ‘placeless’ aesthetic), there is something very specific about the manifestations of place and space in Texas psych. Dead Friends is McMillen’s new album. (via Emporor Jones)