DAN MANGAN SHARES NEW SINGLE “COLD IN THE SUMMER” + ANNOUNCES VARIETY SHOW
MORE OR LESS OUT NOVEMBER 2 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
Dan Mangan is sharing a new track from his upcoming LP, More or Less, which he described as the existential crux of the album. “Cold In The Summer” is the “quarter-life crisis,” he says. “The mid-30s father feeling simultaneously conflicted about having retired the wild young adventurer within and also overwhelmed with appreciation for the privilege and good fortune he has been afforded. I literally got a cold in the summer and thought: ‘This is dumb, I’m getting soft’.”
“Cold In The Summer” comes complete with a video made by David Kalb who Mangan says is this “this freak of nature basketball trick shot dude. I’m friends with his brother. I spent an unreasonable amount of time going through his Instagram videos and appreciated the mixture of skill, absurdity and humour – I thought, this guy could make a funny video.“
On October 28, a few days before the release of More or Less, Mangan and JUNO Award-nominated comedian and author Charlie Demers will host a live, split-screen, multi-stage, variety show on Instagram Live featuring acoustic renditions of album tracks, special guests, prize giveaways, comedic performances, game show questions about Dan, and a lot more. More details to come.
Beginning January 23, Mangan will take to the road throughout Canada for a nation-wide tour, starting in Newfoundland making his way back home to BC. Full tour dates can be found below, with more dates to be added in the near future. Mangan has already been on tour with Stars and Kaleo earlier this year and will continue on with Snow Patrol in North America and Laura Gibson in Europe this fall.
Recently, Mangan shared the first two episodes of his More or Less Songwriting Series. Released over the next twelve months, Mangan and Stuart Gillies take you behind the scenes of his craft to discuss the songs and events that have had the biggest impact on him as a songwriter. The playlist of songs will also be featured on Spotify and Apple Music. In the first two episodes, Mangan discusses the process behind “So Much For Everyone”, a track from his first LP, Postcards And Daydreaming, and “Just Fear”, his most recent single from the upcoming More or Less.
Set for release on November 2 via Arts & Crafts, More or Less is an album that Mangan claims “feels more like ‘me’ than ever. More sparse. Less meticulous. More kids. Less time. More direct. Less metaphor. More discovery. Less youth. More warmth. Less chaos.”
More or Less is about “witnessing birth, and in some ways rebirth,” says Dan Mangan. “It’s about feeling disconnected from a popular identity and becoming acclimated to a new one. It’s about raising kids in a turbulent world. It’s about unanswerable questions and kindness and friendship and fear.”
In the years since 20 year old Dan Mangan began boxing his way into the corner of every noisy bar that would let him bring in his guitar he’s released four other albums, toured relentlessly, won a few awards, found a partner who tolerated his schedule, married that partner, then welcomed a baby into their home…which is when things changed.
So in writing his new album, More or Less, Mangan wrote, like every writer is taught to, about what he knows. Or rather, what he knows now. “I wrote about warmth. I wrote about the feeling of building something when I was young, and the fear of losing it as an adult. I wrote about feeling overwhelmed. I wrote about being in love with someone with whom I spend a lot of time figuring out who is more deserving of a nap. I wrote about the power of what goes unsaid. More or less, I wrote about myself.”
More or Less follows up 2016’s EP Unmake and 2015’s collaborative art-rock album Club Meds. In 2012 Mangan won two JUNO Awards for his sophomore LP, Oh Fortune, and his 2010 debut album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice, was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.
Tour Dates
Oct 10 – Indianapolis, IN – The Murat Theatre #
Oct 12 – Kansas City, MO – VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino #
Oct 13 – St. Catharines, ON – Cicada Festival
Nov 7 – Berlin, DE – Festsaal Kreuzberg ^
Nov 8 – Hamburg, DE – Mojo ^
Nov 10 – Weissenhauser Strand, DE – Rolling Stone Weekender
Nov 11 – Cologne, DE – Gebaude 9 ^
Nov 12 – Brussels, BE – Botanique Rotonde ^
Nov 13 – London, UK – Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank ^
Nov 15 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Noord ^
Nov 16 – Paris, FR – Petit Bain ^
Nov 17 – Rust, DE – Europa Park – Rolling Stone Park Festival
Nov 20 – Zurich, CH – Bogen F ^
Nov 22 – Vienna, AT – Blue Bird Festival – Porgy And Bess
Nov 23 – Dornbirn, AT – Conrad Sohm ^
Nov 24 – Prague, CZ – Meet Factory ^
Nov 26 – Washington, DC – DC9 ^
Nov 27 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade ^
Jan 23 – St. John’s, NF – George Street United
Jan 24 – Halifax, NS – The Marquee Club
Jan 25 – Moncton, NB – Tide & Boar Gastropub
Jan 26 – Fredericton, NB – Boyce Farmer’s Market / Shivering Songs
Jan 28 – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmount
Jan 29 – Ottawa, ON – Algonquin College
Jan 31 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
Feb 1 – Hamilton, ON – New Vision United
Feb 2 – Waterloo, ON – Maxwell’s
Feb 4 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
Feb 5 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club
Feb 6 – Winnipeg, MB – Garrick Centre
Feb 7 – Saskatoon, SK – Broadway Theatre
Feb 8 – Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre
Feb 9 – Calgary, AB – The Palace Theatre
Feb 12 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
Feb 13 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre
Feb 14 – Victoria, BC – Alix Goolden Hall
^ With Laura Gibson
# with Snow Patrol
Dan Mangan
More Or Less
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Release Date: November 2, 2018
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