Dan Mangan

NATURAL LIGHT was recorded unexpectedly over 6 magical days by four best buds in a cabin by a lake.

Here, there is a return to folk music’s classic underpinnings of political resistance. A return to writing “song songs” that might be played around a campfire. Mangan has experimented rigorously with his sound over the years, but resting in his roots may be where he operates most effortlessly.

There is something fitting in Mangan hitting this high watermark at ...