Natural Light Dan Mangan

• 1 It Might Be Raining 05:42
• 2 Diminishing Returns 03:01
• 3 I Hated Love Songs 03:25
• 4 Contained Free (Interlude) 00:47
• 5 No Such Things As Wasted Love 03:00
• 6 Melody 03:20
• 7 My Dreams Are Getting Weirder 03:31
• 8 Soapbox 04:34
• 9 Cut The Brakes 03:37
• 10 For Him 03:10
• 11 Sound The Alarm 03:21
• 12 Proximity 03:16
• 13 Hit The Wall 04:25
• Total Runtime 45:09

Info for Natural Light

There is something fitting in Mangan hitting this high watermark at this stage of his life and career. You can trace the chapters of his story in the fabric of Natural Light. You’ll find remnants of the tenacious young artist who booked tours of Europe via Myspace in the mid 2000s. The emergent songwriter who hibernated into fatherhood just as arena-folk exploded in the early 2010s. The genre-bender who has subtly challenged his audience with each album, tracing a unique trajectory of confronting and eclipsing his own art. Over two decades, Mangan has managed an enviably strong creative ethic, and his integrity as both a singer and songwriter has only strengthened with age. The big picture cohesiveness of Natural Light harkens to a pre-streaming, album-focused sensibility. Songs bleed together through focused transitions and overlapping interludes. Mangan’s lyrics act as gondolier for the journey, reassuring the listener that it’s cool to care. Dan sings for his kids, for his wife, and for a society in existential crisis.

Dan Mangan, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, kalimba, whistles
Jason Haberman, vocals, bass, electric guitar, synthesizer, Wurlitzer, auto-harp, percussion, kalimba
Don Kerr, vocals, drums, percussion, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, whistles
Mike O’Brien, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, melodica, synthesizer, percussion, whistles, glockenspiel
Additional musicians:
Begonia, vocals
Thomas Bartlett, piano
Marcel·lí Bayer, saxophone, clarinet, flute
Rebecca Hennessy, trumpet
Tom Richards, trombone
Emily Steinwall, saxophone
Jesse Zubot, violin

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 & Jimmy Kimmel Live, collaborated with Dave 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.

Mangan’s 6th album, ‘Being Somewhere’, was produced by Drew Brown (Radiohead, Beck). The album unfurls like an overdue conversation with a dear friend. It’s a combative plea for mercy from a manic world and its effects on the psyche. Forging sonics well beyond the tropes of modern folk music, the album features a global cadre of top tier musicians including 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), & Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew.

This album contains no booklet.