Oh, Dan. What happened to you? What horrendous, depressing event was inflicted on you in the last few years? In the past, the albums of Canadian folk artist Dan Mangan have hardly been easy-listening, and sure, there was always an underlying sense of sadness to the way that Mangan composed his songs, but it was done in a way that kept things optimistic. What we have here in Oh Fortune is something even grimmer, darker, and really rather more depressing. The contrast with past albums that is initially more obvious [...]
2010 Could quite possibly be the best year for music i've been alive for. Best albums 1. the head and the heart-(self titled) 2.the love language-libraries] [...]
Dan Mangan's release Nice, Nice, Very Nice is release today in the United States. Over the last 2 years Dan has toured relentlessly, endured himself to all that meets him and recently made The Polaris Prize shortlist . ROAD REGRET Dan Mangan On Tour Aug 20 – Austin, TX @ The Parish ^ Aug 21 – Norman, OK @ Opolis ^ Aug 22 – St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House ^ Aug 23 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop ^ Aug 24 [...]
Dan Mangan ::: Photo Courtesy of Jonathan Taggart It took me one minute and thirty-three seconds to fall in love with Dan Mangan. "Road Regrets," the first song on Mangan's latest album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice, begins gently, with a few soft tones. Things build gradually from there: the muffled strumming of an acoustic guitar, a few [...]
Winner of "Best Music Video" at the 2010 Leo Awards, "Road Regrets" from Vancouver singer/songwriter Dan Mangan 's quite wonderful (and aptly titled) album Nice, Nice, Very Nice (August 10, Arts and Crafts) is a visual delight -- and simply a great song. More on Mangan and Nice from DC here . Myspace Artist Site Dan Mangan - [...]
"There's something to be said for running from pigeonholes," says Vancouver indie troubadour Dan Mangan , an observation that sets the stage, well... nicely... for his excellent, much-buzzed and genre-blurring sophomore album Nice, Nice, Very Nice (August 10, Arts and Crafts). It's been a while since we've heard an album quite this delightfully ramshackle, a sprawling, loosely tied mass of brilliant songwriting that fires like buckshot but hits with pinpoint accuracy. Mangan, winner of the '09 XM Verge Award for Artist of the Year, is also in possession of one of our best distinctive voices -- literally [...]
I remember a time not so long ago when Dan Mangan was known only by the fringiest of indie-fringe outside of Vancouver. Now, I can't walk through the frozen pizza aisle of my grocery store without all the single men breaking into a chorus line of Robots, or the dark-eyed cashier singing the harmony from [...]
Dan Mangan It's been almost four years since Vancouver folk troubadour Dan Mangan released the nuanced and brilliant, Postcards and Dreaming , so the news of his brand new full length album was greeted with much excitement around Bumpershine HQ. Nice, Nice, Very Nice , hit the shelves in Canada on August 11 and I'm pleased to say, it was well worth the wait. On NNVN , Dan once again shows he can write songs with clever [...]
Very cool tune today, coming from the Canadian folk/indie-rock artist artist Dan Mangan . Robots can be found on Mangan's latest EP Roboteering , released in March of 2009; The EP contains songs from an upcoming full-length release titled Nice, Nice, Very Nice . The album will be a follow-up to Mangan's Postcards and Daydreaming which was recorded in 2005, and then re-released to Canada and the US in 2007 with the help of the Vancouver-based indie label FUM. On a side-note, Mangan has toured with notable Canadian indie acts such as Elliot [...]
dan mangan's recently released nice, nice very nice is one of those records that you may not think much of, other than its good, on first listen, but it possesses the uncanny ability to creep back in your daily listening habits. i've had this one for about a month or so now, and i found myself going back to it on a semi daily basis. musically, the record is comprised of your standard folksy/singer-songwriter fare - though there are some nice surprises, but lyrically is what sets nice, nice very nice apart from your run [...]
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