Dan Mangan

Canada’s newest indie singer-songwriter sensation Dan Mangan returns with a heck of a record. Opener About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All thunders in with a lush cradle for Mangan’s gravelly delivery, while Post-War Blues drives home a message as it gets your head nodding. Starts With Them, Ends With Us is a pretty little ditty (of which there are a few on this one) that will likely find its way onto a few pining-for-you mixes. Mangan debuted a whack of these songs for Winnipeg ears at Folk Fest this year, and tunes such as Leaves, Trees, Forest sound just as intimate and sweet on headphones as they did in a field surrounded by hundreds of your closest friends. Oh Fortune is likely the disc that will make Mangan a household name in a matter of months. In stores Tuesday, Sept. 27.

Published in Volume 66, Number 2 of The Uniter (September 8, 2011)

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