571 emails, 100-plus hours on the phone, and thousands of text messages,” to be precise — and a lightning three-day studio session, the record came out of non-specific virtual space as much as his home studio.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Mangan notes that there were times in the making of the music when it would have been great to just go for it, but that wasn’t what the situation permitted, and so be it. There are a lot of records coming out right now that are the product of time.Article content “Perhaps because he was kind of a peer, because he was so vocal about his struggles with mental health, because of his heartbreaking final two tweets, his death hit me very hard,” said Mangan. “The song just came to me in the shower and it unlocked something in me that I wouldn’t have expected. I still feel a bit odd at shows when I perform it and people will come up to me with some cherished Frightened Rabbit trinket to show and I don’t know what to say.
As he readies for a coming European tour in support of Being Somewhere, Mangan is working out the best way to incorporate Brown’s sonic inventions with the live setting. He doesn’t like playing to tracks and doesn’t like to re-create a record verbatim. The band has honed its ability to incorporate the vibe without being beholden to the structure.