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.