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Dean McPhee is a UK-based guitarist whose work draws on dub, British folk, underground electronic music, and psychedelic rock, evolving from sparse, echo-laden solo guitar pieces into a heavier, more immersive style incorporating deep bass, hypnotic riffs, and layered, loop-based structures. Performing on electric guitar through an expansive pedalboard routed into a valve amplifier and 18” subwoofer, his live sets unfold in real time, building dense, rhythmic compositions from minimal elements. A regular contributor to the Folklore Tapes collective, he has released music on his own label Bass Ritual as well as on BLAST FIRST (petite), Sonido Polifonico, Reverb Worship, and Hood Faire, which he co-runs with Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker, and has toured throughout the UK and Europe, opening for artists including Thurston Moore, Acid Mothers Temple, Michael Chapman, The Magic Band, Emeralds, and Ex-Easter Island Head. His latest album, Astral Gold, received widespread critical acclaim from The Quietus, Uncut, Aquarium Drunkard, MOJO, Loud and Quiet, KLOF Mag, and Brainwashed, and his sixth album, Northern Earth, was recently released on limited cassette

“McPhee’s greatest moments reach another plane altogether where it feels like he is channeling something much deeper, more timeless, and almost supernatural.” – Brainwashed

“Dean McPhee stands out as a true one-off in a crowded field.” – Loud & Quiet Magazine

“There’s really no one else who can create (and sustain) the darkly seductive mood that’s embedded within his work.” – Aquarium Drunkard

“Set within an electric ancestry that includes Michael Karoli’s solos in Can, the hymnal rock of Popol Vuh’s Daniel Fichelscher, and the sonic spaciousness of dub, as well as the emotional punch of John Martyn’s dawn-lit Echoplex epic ‘Small Hours’.” – The Quietus

“Definitely one of the leading contemporary guitar stylists in the UK, and in the world.” – Steve Barker, BBC ‘On the Wire’