The first single from Daan's new album’s a non-stop stream of ironic boutades towards - to quote good old Iglesias - all the women Daan loved before on top of seventies sounding music combining the rhythmic energy of The Who with Cockney Rebel vocals and an early Springsteen live band feel.

The video shows Daan as a slightly psychotic lumberjack setting off to the village going from door to door to destroy the local’s souvenirs of their exes with a simple axe. And a wedding dress. Shot on location in the villages surrounding Manhay, which brings us to the album title;

MANHAY 

On April 27th Daan releases his 5th solo album. The title refers to the Ardennes village where he hides these days to write his songs & breathe some mentally clean air. And that pure nature surrounding clearly changed the whole sound of the album; without the usual synths and beats, this is a full-band first-take recording; it’s an album about songs, not gimmicks, about emotions more than about posures, straight black and white instead of flashy colors. It feels a lot more human than its predecessors, only real musicians playing real sounds. But still it’s a very different sound than his records with the more experimental Dead Man Ray or his lo-fi debut album Profools.

It’s like always a self-produced home-recording with his faithful band (Isolde Lasoen on drums, Jeroen Swinnen on keys and Steven Jansens on guitar) along with some extra fine musicians like Dead Man Ray’s guitarist Elko Blyweert, the virtuose jazz bass player Michel Hatzigeorgeou or veteran percussionist Marc Bonne. For the first time, Daan's piano plays the main role in the writing and recording of the material. His voice is more brutally up front than we are used to, making it a more intimate recording.