Have a listen to the inventive fourth album from Canadian songwriter Dan Mangan and let us know your thoughts.

Award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Dan Mangan is back with his 4th album, Club Meds.

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Dan Mangan (born April 28, 1983) is a Vancouver-based Canadian musician. He has also been a contributing writer for The Guardian's Arts section, Montecristo Magazine and Huffington Post Canada, and has won two Juno Awards. In 2003, at 20 years old, Mangan completed his first set of recordings: an EP of simply recorded acoustic songs called All At Once. Five hundred copies were pressed and sold or given away throughout the Vancouver area.

Music By, Lyrics By, Producer, Mixed By, Engineer, Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drum Machine, Synth, MIDI Controller – Dan Mangan (2). Producer, Mixed By, Engineer – Colin Stewart. Trombone – Rod Murray.

Vancouver’s Dan Mangan is best known in his home country as a talented singer-songwriter with an occasionally gravelly and always expressive voice. In 2012, he won two JUNO Awards - including New Artist of the Year - for his album Oh Fortune. His fourth album, Club Meds, is his first as Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, a Vancouver-based band featuring experimental musicians and past collaborators like Kenton Loewen, Gordon Grdina, and John Walsh. The result of a two-year hiatus and personal milestones like fatherhood, Club Meds finds Mangan in a completely different headspace compared to his previous efforts. Here, the songs are more fluid and less conventional, backed by looping synths, intricate drum patterns, and cascading guitars.

Artist(s): Blacksmith. Summary: Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Mangan returns as Dan Mangan + Blacksmith for his fourth overall full-length album and it was produced by Colin Stewart.

Produced by Colin Stewart and Dan Mangan, Club Meds at times evokes images of subtler 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.

Club Meds is the fourth studio album by Juno winning Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Mangan, released on 13 January 2015. It is his first album to be released under the moniker Dan Mangan + Blacksmith. Mangan's previous solo effort, 2011's Oh Fortune earned him a JUNO Award for New Artist of the Year and for Alternative Album of the Year. Club Meds comes after a two-year hiatus in Mangans' career so he could concentrate on being a father.

Album · 2015 · 11 Songs. Dan Mangan & Blacksmith. 11 Songs, 45 Minutes. Released: 13 Jan 2015.