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  • Dan Mangan - Fool For Waiting

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  • Dan Mangan - Race To The Bottom [Official Video]

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  • Dan Mangan - Unmake

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  • RACE TO THE BOTTOM - Dan Mangan [Lyric Video]

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  • Dan Mangan + Blacksmith | Mouthpiece [Official Video]

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  • Dan Mangan - Club Meds

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  • Dan Mangan + Blacksmith | VESSEL

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  • Dan Mangan - Vessel / Wants

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  • Dan Mangan - Radicals

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  • Dan Mangan - Post-War Blues (Official Music Video)

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  • Dan Mangan - Rows Of Houses (Official Music Video)

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  • Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune

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  • Dan Mangan - Sold

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  • Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice

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  • Dan Mangan - Robots vs. Indie Queens

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  • Dan Mangan - Road Regrets

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  • Dan Mangan - The Indie Queens Are Waiting - Dan Mangan

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Fool For Waiting

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Tuesday February 13th, 2018





  •           1.   Fool For Waiting


Unmake

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Friday June 17th, 2016
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  •           1.   Race To The Bottom (Radio Edit)
  •           2.   Whistleblower
  •           3.   Hang With Me (Robyn Cover)
  •           4.   Race To The Bottom
  •           5.   Forgetery Redux (feat. Tegan Quin)
  •           6.   Kitsch Redux


Club Meds

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Tuesday January 13th, 2015
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After a two year hiatus, an induction into fatherhood, and some time to regroup, two-time JUNO Award-winner Dan Mangan has returned under a new moniker, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith. The new name encompasses the spirit of the project’s longstanding ensemble members joining the band fromVancouver's experimental music community, Kenton Loewen, Gordon Grdina, John Walsh (and often Jesse Zubot, JP carter andTyson Naylor) with a communal sensibility that merits the marquee amendment.

Produced by Colin Stewart and Dan Mangan, Club Meds at times evokes images of subtler American-underground innovators like Blonde Redhead or Steve Reich. At other moments, it hits emotional pay dirt reminiscent of British scene-survivors like Peter Gabriel or Radiohead. Blacksmith brings an unmistakable character to Club Meds; a stark glassy edge that swells and sways like a roaring ocean. Through a fog of analog feedback loops and synths, the band's performances breathe deeply and steadily like a dragon at rest.


  •           1.   Offred
  •           2.   Vessel
  •           3.   Mouthpiece
  •           4.   A Doll's House / Pavlovia
  •           5.   Kitsch
  •           6.   XVI
  •           7.   War Spoils
  •           8.   Forgetery
  •           9.   Club Meds
  •           10.   Pretty Good Joke
  •           11.   New Skies


Vessel / Wants

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Tuesday September 9th, 2014
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After a two year hiatus, an induction into fatherhood and some time to regroup, two-time Juno Award-winner Dan Mangan returns under the new moniker "Dan Mangan + Blacksmith" with a new single "Vessel". The new name encompasses the spirit of the project's longstanding ensemble members. It takes a village to raise a fool.

"Vessel" is not only an integral component to the soundtrack for the new Simon Pegg feature Hector And The Search For Happiness (for which Mangan composed the score with Jesse Zubot), but also the first single to Dan Mangan + Blacksmith's upcoming fourth full-length album.

Hector And The Search For Happiness premieres at TIFF Sept 7, and hits North American theatres Sept 19.


  •           1.   Vessel
  •           2.   Wants


Radicals

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Tuesday October 16th, 2012
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"Radicals" includes the majestic "We Want To Be Pleasantly Surprised, Not Expectedly Let Down", an outtake from the "Oh Fortune" sessions, as well as a jaw dropping cover of the Yukon Blonde song "Stairway".


  •           1.   We Want To Be Pleasantly Surprised, Not Expectedly Let Down
  •           2.   Stairway


Oh Fortune

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Tuesday September 27th, 2011
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In a few short years, Dan Mangan has gone from globetrotting folk crooner to one of independent music's most promising storytellers. No longer armed with just an acoustic guitar slung across his back, Dan returns in 2011 on the back of critically acclaimed sophomore album Nice, Nice Very Nice, which earned him a Polaris Music Prize shortlist, a spot at Glastonbury and shows with The Walkmen, Decemberists and Okkervil River, to name but a few. Here now, is his dense, ambitious third offering, Oh Fortune, Dan's proper Arts & Crafts debut, slated for release September 27. On it, rich, textured folk explores the genre's boundaries, demonstrating Dan's impressive growth in writing and arranging. Produced by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Cave Singers) and now flanked with a stellar supporting cast, the new album is bigger and more challenging, though still infused with the signature wit and wisdom that have made Dan such a fan favourite wherever he goes. To be sure, this release marks the arrival of a new voice, with world class charm and a universal appeal. Oh fortune, indeed.


  •           1.   About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All
  •           2.   How Darwinian
  •           3.   Post-War Blues
  •           4.   If I Am Dead
  •           5.   Daffodil
  •           6.   Starts With Them, Ends With Us
  •           7.   Oh Fortune
  •           8.   Leaves, Trees, Forest
  •           9.   Rows Of Houses
  •           10.   Regarding Death And Dying
  •           11.   Jeopardy
  •           12.   Oh Fortune (Yowie Bay Demo)
  •           13.   Si Je Suis Mort (If I am Dead / Brick Lane Demo)


Nice, Nice, Very Nice

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Tuesday August 10th, 2010
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Beginning with its reference to a Kurt Vonnegut poem, Nice, Nice, Very Nice is classing Mangan, brimming with irreverence that aims to capture the absurdity of life with astounding honesty and wit. Mangan effortlessly leads listeners through a true range of emotions, complete with earnest affection every one of us can appreciate.


  •           1.   Road Regrets
  •           2.   Robots
  •           3.   The Indie Queens Are Waiting
  •           4.   Sold
  •           5.   Fair Verona
  •           6.   You Silly Git
  •           7.   Tina's Glorious Comeback
  •           8.   Et Les Mots CroisÌ©s
  •           9.   Some People
  •           10.   Pine For Cedars
  •           11.   Basket
  •           12.   Set The Sails


Robots vs. Indie Queens

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Tuesday July 13th, 2010
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  •           1.   Robots
  •           2.   The Indie Queens Are Waiting
  •           3.   Set The Sails



April 25th, 2018
Atlanta, GA
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June 23rd, 2018
Vancouver, BC
PNE Ampitheatre
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June 25th, 2018
Edmonton, AB
Northern Alberta Jubilee Center
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June 26th, 2018
Calgary, AB
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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June 28th, 2018
Winnipeg, MB
Centennial Concert Hall
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July 1st, 2018
Grand Rapids, MI
20 Monroe Live
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July 3rd, 2018
Toronto, ON
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August 2nd, 2018
Kootenay National Park, BC
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Call it entering one's thirties or taking a few years away from the road to sit and reflect. Or, perhaps, more than ever before, call it having something to say.

Club Meds is the fourth LP offering from Dan Mangan, and the first under the moniker "Dan Mangan + Blacksmith". The new namesake is timely, as this album is indicative of a new beginning, of sorts.

"Blacksmith" is Kenton Loewen, Gordon Grdina, John Walsh (and often Jesse Zubot, JP carter and Tyson Naylor). Many of these musicians have played with Mangan for years, but there's a reaffirmed cohesiveness or communal sensibility that merits the marquee amendment.

At times, Club Meds evokes images of subtler American-underground innovators like Blonde Redhead or Steve Reich. At other moments, it hits emotional pay-dirt reminiscent of British scene-survivors like Peter Gabriel or Radiohead. 

Blacksmith brings an unmistakable character to Club Meds; a stark glassy edge that swells and sways like a roaring ocean. Through a haze of analog feedback loops and synths, the band's performances breathe deeply and steadily like a dragon at rest.

The album itself feels like a clearing of the air. It seems fitting, as after seven relentless years of near-non-stop touring, the entire ensemble, and especially Mangan, needed a break. So they took one.

There was risk the short hiatus could have crippled the band's mojo. Mangan's third album, 2011's Oh Fortune, received international acclaim, two JUNO Awards and a Polaris Music Prize listing. By many standards, it was just the time to accelerate rather than slow down.

"It was like I was obsessed with keeping the plates spinning," Mangan says from his home in Vancouver, "The distraction was nice, but I had some work to do that didn't involve performing. I had to think about what it takes to live out a long body of work, and why I wanted that in the first place."

There were other projects to be undertaken. Most notably, Dan becoming a dad and scoring a feature film with bandmate Jesse Zubot ("Hector And The Search For Happiness" starring Simon Pegg).

The ensemble laboured intensely over the bed tracks with producer Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Yukon Blonde). Heated moments, heavy discussions and long, sweaty sessions delivered what is no doubt the most mature song-crafting to come from Mangan and his collaborators to date.

Mangan and Stewart then worked on and off for four months, meticulously adding and subtracting hundreds of layers of noise and subtext. The result is a fastidiously organized piece of broken, imperfect art.

The lyrics... It's as if Dan's newfound fatherhood encouraged him to sharpen his knives - like adding a child into the equation raised the stakes for an already overly-opinionated writer.

In the aptly titled Mouth Piece, which rolls along like a decade-in-the-making call-to-arms rant, Mangan stammers out, "Those who pretend to believe hardest might actually begin to / The nature of the bliss the warmth of ignorance gives in to". This could serve as a thesis statement, but it could also pass you by in the onslaught of similarly weighted lines.

And Club Meds is full of 'em. In Vessel, likely the album's backbeat-iest track, we're repeatedly reminded "It takes a village to raise a fool". In XVI, an ode to Louis and Marie Antoinette as they gaze down upon Occupy Wall St campers, we get a banker's perspective on the crisis: "See, if you hate the Man, the Man hates you too"

As for the title, Mangan includes the following missive in the album's liner notes:

Sedation is massive. It surrounds us like a thick wet blanket. To be numb is to allow others to control your reality. It makes some people feel better, to know that you suffer also, that their numbness is shared like a virus. But unity in numbness is a facade, and not nearly as magical as a unity born of awakeness.

CLUB MEDS is about sedation. Sedation can be chemical, but not exclusively so. There is a great vacation from actuality going on. Maybe there always has been. It seems like everybody else is already at the party and that life is somehow easier or more fun under the fog. But instead, it only makes people feel more alone, more dangerous, more desperate.

It's okay, though. We're all just particles..



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