{"id":103,"date":"2009-11-30T14:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:07:19","slug":"dan-mangan-nice-nice-very-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/11\/30\/dan-mangan-nice-nice-very-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Mangan &#8211; Nice, Nice, Very Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-104\" title=\"danmangan\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/danmangan.jpg\" alt=\"danmangan\" width=\"300\" height=\"303\" \/>Vancouverite Dan Mangan\u2019s second LP is a little bit country and a little bit rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and a lot better than what that suggests. The gruff-voiced singer-songwriter covers familiar ground; love, doubt and his hometown in distinct style and effectively varied instrumentation. Named after a Kurt Vonnegut poem, Nice, Nice, Very Nice actually is quite nice. Dan Mangan\u2019s lyrics share the earnest sincerity that gave Vonnegut\u2019s satirical weight, yet refreshingly lack the irony. The standout tracks \u201cRobots\u201d and \u201cThe Indie Queens Are Waiting\u201d showcase Mangan\u2019s skill with catchy choruses and full arrangements, while later tracks \u201cPine for Cedars\u201d and \u201cSet the Sails\u201d are intimate and sparse. Nice, Nice, Very Nice makes a good case for the folk-rock genre in a court that is inclined to condemn it, jail it, and stop its soul-searching. Thumbs up for our Queen\u2019s profile on the album art. (FUM, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmanganmusic.com\/\">www.danmanganmusic.com<\/a>) <strong>Paul Beriault<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouverite Dan Mangan\u2019s second LP is a little bit country and a little bit rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and a lot better than what that suggests. The gruff-voiced singer-songwriter covers familiar ground; love, doubt and his hometown in distinct style and effectively varied instrumentation. Named after a Kurt Vonnegut poem, Nice, Nice, Very Nice actually is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}