Dan Mangan announces new album with new single "Just Fear"

Tender and minimalistic, "Just Fear" was written when Mangan's second son was born, and is the third track to be revealed from Dan Mangan's forthcoming fifth album.

Going into more depth, Mangan explains, “Trump had recently been elected and there was a lot of fear in the air. People were in denial because the lynchpin of western democratic society had been pulled. Truth was fluid. Reality was fluid. Still is. I needed a silver lining. Holding a newborn baby is a bit supernatural. It’s a slap in the face of the rat race. New life, like sudden death, cannot help but conjure feelings of mortality, absolution, and gratitude. Newborns are so precious and innocent - so beautifully fresh and unsullied by fear or greed or ego. It’s like you lift the baby in the air and yell to the whole world: ‘Hey guys! We get one more shot at not screwing this up!’”

"Just Fear" follows on from "Fool For Waiting" and "Troubled Mind".

Mangan's fifth album More or Less comes three years after his Club Meds album with + Blacksmith, the name given to his ever-rotating cast of collaborators, and his 2016's Unmake EP.

Speaking about his upcoming record, Mangan describes, "More or Less is about witnessing birth, and in some ways rebirth. It’s about feeling disconnected from a popular identity and becoming acclimated to a new one. It’s about raising kids in a turbulent world. It’s about unanswerable questions and kindness and friendship and fear."

He adds the record "feels more like ‘me’ than ever. More sparse. Less meticulous. More kids. Less time. More direct. Less metaphor. More discovery. Less youth. More warmth. Less chaos."

Tracklist:

1. Lynchpin
2. Peaks & Valleys
3. Just Fear (YouTube)
4. Lay Low
5. Cold In The Summer
6. Troubled Mind (YouTube)
7. Fool For Waiting (YouTube)
8. Can’t Not
9. Never Quiet
10. Which Is It