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Doctor Millar – I Am Vermin (5cd box)

SKU: GR0XX-20 Categories: Album, Box, CD, Physical Tags: CD, Doctor Millar

5-CD box set, available exclusively in physical format.

Album 1. Toy Bear in a Coal Mine

Album 2. London Eats Me

Album 3. Two Centimes

Album 4. The Invisible Revolution

Album 5. Dirty Dublin

42 songs | Release date April 1st, 2026

Doctor Millar’s final masterpiece: a five-disc epic, 42 songs, almost a decade in the making, recorded in Ireland, London and New York. Each disc is sonically and thematically distinct, tracing different aspects of Seán’s imagination and storytelling — from post-punk iconoclast to folky troubadour to critically lauded music theatre composer.

The concept grew from discussions about the scale of albums such as Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden: records that once required long studio time and substantial budgets. Millar set out to make work of similar conceptual ambition without that financial backing. Instead, he relied on time, discipline and strict self-imposed limitations, where imperfections were left intact and space was preserved. The scale recalls The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, but I Am Vermin is far more personal and more abrasive. The five albums form a continuous narrative — a self-examination shaped by risk, limitation and lived experience.

I Am Vermin is not designed as background music. It demands attention.

Seán Millar: “Real music happens in space and time. Once you started faking that or affecting it, it loses something. We need to put that dark matter back in. For me the gaps, mistakes and hesitancies are the magic, they’re a space for the unwanted to fill. Let the vermin in.”

Doctor Millar is the alter ego of Dublin songwriter Seán Millar. Since the 1990s he has made music that ignores fashion and resists compromise. His work sits somewhere between Leonard Cohen and The Velvet Underground: melodic but frayed at the edges, dark, precise, sometimes funny, often uncomfortable. Hot Press called him “one of Ireland’s greatest songwriters.” The Irish Times described him as “an Irish national treasure,” and once wrote that his songs were “the best collection of short stories I have never read.” RTE Guide wrote: “Half Leonard Cohen and half Jarvis Cocker… Ireland’s best lyricist.” Robin Denselow of The Guardian wrote his official biography and described him as the artist you should have already known for years. Damien Rice has cited him as an example who made him rethink what songwriting should be. Paolo Nutini named Doctor Millar’s These Days the song that changed his life.

The complete five-CD box will be released only in physical form and will not be available on streaming platforms. From the February onwards Seán will release an EP of a few songs from ‘I Am Vermin’ once a month for the rest of the year. On March 6th, 2026, the song I Am Vermin will be released as a single. The EP’s from ‘I Am Vermin’ will be available on Bandcamp and YouTube.