Blog: BowlingStone.com

If you've ever sat down and attempted to pen a song, you're aware that it is significantly more challenging than Dan Mangan would have you believe. Finding a balance between telling a story, engaging a listener, evoking thought and emotion, and presenting it all in a way more eloquent than a slap to the face is truly an art. Every song I've heard from Dan Mangan's 2009 sophomore full-length release "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" seems to create it's own universe that you can explore while listening to; I believe that is me trying to say his songs have [...]