Dan Mangan announces new album 'More or Less' on City Slang
Dan Managan has revealed details of his forthcoming album, More or Less to be released November 2nd via City Slang.
Mangan had this to say: “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. More sparse. Less meticulous. More kids. Less time. More direct. Less metaphor. More discovery. Less youth. More warmth. Less chaos.”
He also shares the single Just Fear which you can stream below, and explained: “Trump had recently been elected and there was a lot of fear in the air,” says Mangan. “People were in denial because the lynchpin of western democratic society had been pulled. Truth was fluid. Reality was fluid. Still is. I needed a silver lining. Holding a newborn baby is a bit supernatural. It’s a slap in the face of the rat race. New life, like sudden death, cannot help but conjure feelings of mortality, absolution, and gratitude. Newborns are so precious and innocent - so beautifully fresh and unsullied by fear or greed or ego. It’s like you lift the baby in the air and yell to the whole world: ‘Hey guys! We get one more shot at not screwing this up!’”
More or Less tracklist:
01 Lynchpin
02 Peaks & Valleys
03 Just Fear (YouTube)
04 Lay Low
05 Cold In The Summer
06 Troubled Mind (YouTube)
07 Fool For Waiting (YouTube)
08 Can’t Not
09 Never Quiet
10 Which Is It
