8 January, 2015Print
![Via NPR First Listen: “Musical Realms Where Straightforward Hooks Never Go”](/images/made/f6e51e1825ad4a24/Dan_Mangan_+_Blacksmith_2_cred-Norman_Wong_400_400_s_c1.jpg)
Via NPR First Listen: "Musical Realms Where Straightforward Hooks Never Go"
Dan Mangan + BlacksmithNPR is now streaming Dan Mangan + Blacksmith's new album 'Club Meds' (1/13, Arts & Crafts) with all of its "vivid, wildly ambitious" layered vocals, analog feedback and instrumental excursions. NPR praises Mangan, two-time JUNO winner, for his "explorer's bent," his "pursuit of the improbable and the idyllic lead[ing] to musical realms where straightforward hooks never go." Listen to 'Club Meds' in full here.