Gold Dyslexia

Pre-order the "Vessel" 7-inch with the B-side "Wants": http://www.galleryac.com/dan-mangan-blacksmith-vessel-wants.html

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.

http://danmanganmusic.com
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Dan Mangan + Blacksmith "Vessel"

Church Garden

Produced by We Are The City
Engineered by Daniel Klenner & We Are The City
Mixed by Ryan Dahle

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cguy9-W5O2g

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This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.

Ce project est financé par FACTOR, le gouvernement
du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

Keep on Dancing

Vocals - Tyler Zanon
Instruments - Patrick Farrugia

This song goes out to pizza, friends, khaki shorts, and getting out of this town.

Genesis! No, Peter Gabriel! - Solsburycore

Danny Brown x SOPHIE (Remix)

“Degraded” from ‘Preoccupations’ out September 16, 2016 on Jagjaguwar

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Preoccupations - Degraded

One Grump interviews another Grump about their life leading up to the moment they joined the Game Grumps. WHOA

Before the Grumps - A Game Grumps Podcast

Arin Interviews Dan

Preoccupations’ songs have always worked through themes of creation, destruction, and futility, and they’ve always done it with singular post-punk grit. The textures are evocative and razor-sharp. The wire is always a live one. But while that darker side may have been well-explored, that’s not quite the same as it being fully, intensely lived. This time it was, and the result is ‘New Material’, a collection that broadens and deepens Preoccupations to a true mastery of their sound. In it lies the difference between witnessing a car crash and crashing your own, between jumping into an ocean and starting to swallow the water. 

Opener “Espionage” kicks off with a clattering, rhythmic echo that gives way to sprinting percussion and a melody in the orbit of Manchester’s classics. “Manipulation” explores the futility of going through the motions, balancing a droney, minimal march with a thunder roll that brings it to the brink, and to the doomed romantic declaration, “please don’t remember me like I’ll always remember you.” “Disarray” bursts up like a blackened confetti cannon, the song’s undeniably bright melody dancing over a refrain of “disarray, disarray, disarray” and literally nothing else. 

If the through-line unifying Preoccupations’ work is a furious, almost punishing cyclical quality, ‘New Material’ does offer some relief, as that propulsive, itchy quality rescues ‘New Material’ from the proverbial bottom of the pit. To write these songs is to force oneself to reignite, to play them is to stand up and reengage. 

‘New Material’ is Preoccupations’ third studio album and is available on March 23rd.

Genesis! No, Peter Gabriel! - Solsburycore

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