DAN MANGAN’S NEW LP, BEING SOMEWHERE, OUT TODAY VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
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LISTEN / SHARE “EASY” HERE
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NORTH AMERICAN PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN JANUARY 2023
“This sixth album moves the needle on again, while never losing sight of his brilliance as a songwriter... Being Somewhere carries a gentle wisdom, filled with kindness... It’s like being given a cozy sonic hug while the world’s storms rage outside.” - MOJO
“Full of kindness and empathy, the Vancouver songwriter's latest serves as a gentle reminder to appreciate what you have before it's gone.” - RANGE Magazine
“Being Somewhere showcases some of Mangan’s finest writing couched in some of the most atmospheric arrangements to appear in his catalogue. From the Spartan, piano-driven Just Know It with its subtle harmonies to All Roads driving atmospherics, the production is meticulous.” - Vancouver Sun
“Dan Mangan’s sixth album strikes a fine balance between the quiet intimacy of his best work and Bon Iver’s most fractalized folktronica... The likes of ‘Fire Escape’ and ‘All Roads’ provide warmth and immediacy without disrupting the delicate mood.” - Uncut
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Being Somewhere, Dan Mangan’s sixth studio album, cuts incisively but never forgets its underlying thesis: It’s cool to care. Mangan arms the rebels in the crusade for tenderness. Out today via Arts & Crafts, the album is a combative plea for mercy from a manic world and its effects on the psyche. Whittling his sharpest pen to date, Being Somewhere is marked by Mangan’s singular wit and a respectful deference to the quagmire of existence.
“I wanted this album to feel like the inside crook of a familiar elbow on the nape of your neck, a comforting embrace” says Mangan, “These songs are tenderhearted and unfurl like an overdue conversation with a dear friend. They essentially lay out where we’re at, how I’m doing, and how I think I can help."
LISTEN TO DAN MANGAN TALK ABOUT BEING SOMEWHERE IN DEPTH ON CBC q HERE
BUY / STREAM BEING SOMEWHERE HERE
Recently, Mangan also announced a limited run of intimate North American tour dates for 2023 after returning from performances abroad. Full dates can be found below. In addition, he has also launched a Substack newsletter called Reality Shield where fans can subscribe to access newsletters, live show recordings, essays, pop-up Zoom hangs, demos of new material, and much more.
WATCH / SHARE “ALL ROADS” (LYRIC VIDEO) HERE
WATCH / SHARE “JUST KNOW IT” (LYRIC VIDEO) HERE
MORE ABOUT BEING SOMEWHERE
571 emails. 100+ hours on the phone and thousands of text messages. A mere 3 days spent in-person together over two and a half years of long-distance work. Such a displaced recording process might make anyone question the concept of being anywhere at all, let alone being somewhere else.
This is how Dan Mangan and collaborator/producer Drew Brown (Radiohead, Beck) manifested Being Somewhere. All components were recorded in isolation and beamed up to the mothership. No piece of the puzzle ended up as expected, and each moment is the fruition of separate, yet conjoined, rabbit holes.
WATCH / SHARE “IN YOUR CORNER (FOR SCOTT HUTCHISON)” LYRIC VIDEO
“The hard part was waiting,” Mangan says of the long-distance process, “sometimes it took six weeks to resolve an issue that could have taken twenty minutes had we been together in a room. But Drew’s dedication and talent cannot be understated, and this music doesn’t sound like anything else I’m hearing these days."
Under the care of Drew Brown’s distinct touch, Being Somewhere forges sonics well beyond the tropes of modern folk music. Helming the project from Chicago, Brown sourced musical contributions from all over North America, the UK and Japan, including work from Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms for Peace), Jason Falkner (Beck, St. Vincent), Thomas Bartlett (The National, Taylor Swift), Dave Okumu (Arlo Parks, Adele), Mary Lattimore (Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten), and Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew.
WATCH / SHARE “FIRE ESCAPE” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
MORE ABOUT DAN MANGAN
Dan Mangan is a two-time JUNO Award-winning and two-time Polaris Music Prize-nominated musician and songwriter. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife and two sons. Mangan has toured extensively in North America, Europe & Australia. He has played Glastonbury and Jimmy Kimmel Live, collaborated with David Grohl, sold out Massey Hall and scored acclaimed soundtracks for television (Netflix, AMC) and feature films. In 2017, he co-founded Side Door, a community marketplace platform for the arts that seeks to democratize and decentralize the entertainment industry by allowing non-traditional spaces to be venues. Watch for Mangan and his Side Door partner Laura Simpson to appear on CBC TV’s Dragon’s Den on November 3. Being Somewhere is his sixth studio album.
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TOUR DATES
Nov 9 - Dublin, IRE - Whelan's
Nov 10 - Chester, UK - St. Marys
Nov 11 - Manchester, UK - Low Four
Nov 12 - Glasgow, UK - Great Western
Nov 13 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
Nov 15 - London, UK - Scala
Nov 16 - Brighton, UK - Chalk
Nov 17 - Rotterdam, NL - Rotown
Nov 18 - Groningen, NL - Lutherse Kerk
Nov 19 - Utrecht, NL - TivoliVredenburg
Nov 21 - Copenhagen, DK - Raahuset
Nov 22 - Hamburg, DE - Nochtspeicher
Nov 23 - Berlin, DE - Frannz
Nov 25 - Schorndorf, DE - Manufaktur
Nov 26 - Graz, AT - Autumn Leaves
Nov 27 - Prague, CZ - Le Royal
Nov 28 - Vienna, AT - B72
Nov 30 - Zurich, CH - Bogen F
Dec 1 - Nyon, CH - La Parenthèse
Dec 2 - Paris, FR - Pop Up Du Label
Dec 3 - Antwerp, BE - Rock Lobster
Dec 4 - Cologne, DE - Gebäude 9
An Evening With Dan Mangan
Jan 19 - Toronto, ON - Longboat Hall
Jan 25 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right
Jan 28 - Washington, DC - Kennedy Center (FREE SHOW)
Feb 2 - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge
Feb 3 - Vancouver, BC - Fox Cabaret
