I am vermin is Doctor Millar’s final masterpiece. Sean Millar’s new album is a five record epic. Each album is sonically and thematically linked covering different aspects of his life and career. Each reflects on different aspects of his imagination and talent- from the post punk iconoclast to the folky troubadour and the critically lauded musictheatre composer. Each album was what he calls ‘a trip’. A carefully curated interaction with ‘Dogma’ style limitations in place for each process. These create strange inadequacies, peaks and troughs of meaning and musicality that we’ve become unused to hearing in modern music. Beauty arrives from such hesitancies, mistakes, inaccuracies. We need to build the problem in.

Sean began recordings for it in 2016 in NY. Nine years in the making, the other recordings were made in Dublin with Mick Richard’s and in Kildare with Anthony Gibney. It features three different drummers, and guest vocalists. The idea started from a discussion about Talk Talk’s  Spirit of Eden and about how no one could afford to make an album like that, or like Close To The Edge by Yes now. Conceptually complex music has bvecome unaffordable. Seans idea was to use his real time, and compositional experience, years of it, to make up for the old school ‘record company’ money they had. Those type of albums usually Millions to do in a year because of the studio and personnel time.   He finally finished the last track in December 2025.
“I find it increasingly hard to listen to contemporary music not because of its sounds or arrangements but because the recordings are so even, uniform, so muted, it’s like the depleted soil, it has less and less to give. Real music happens in space and time once you started faking that or affecting it, it loses something. Even great music suffers from this. Many people who have been making music as long as me are obsessed with this and how to avoid the soul death and decrepitude of it. It’s not about digital, I was listening to some midi strings through an amp and they sounded really vibrant, it’s about fucking with it. We need to put that dark matter back in. For me the gaps and mistakes and hesitancies are the magick they’re a space for the unwanted to fill. Let the vermin in.”