Nearly two years after record number two, Calgarys most-beloved one-man band Chad VanGaalen is getting set for number three. On September 9, the lo-fi pop innovator will drop Soft Airplane, his first album since 2006s much-loved, Polaris Music Prize-nominated Skelliconnection.
Like VanGaalens other work, Soft Airplane finds the songwriter retreating to the weird and wonderful confines of his Calgary basement, where he primarily recorded the album on an old tape machine and JVC ghetto blaster. According to his label Sub Pop, the full-length also "retains the handmade charm and singular character of his previous records, while incorporating new layers of sophistication and weight. And with titles like "Cries of the Dead, "Phantom Anthills, "Poisonous Heads and "TMNT Mask, it seems VanGaalen is has lost neither sense of humour nor his taste for death.
Here is the Soft Airplane tracklisting:
1. "Willow Tree
2. "Bones of Man
3. "Cries of the Dead
4. "Inside the Molecules
5. "Bare Feet on Wet Griptape
6. "Phantom Anthills
7. "Poisonous Heads
8. "TMNT Mask
9. "Molten Light
10. "Old Man + the Sea
11. "City of Electric Light
12. "Rabid Bits of Time
13. "Frozen Energon
Like VanGaalens other work, Soft Airplane finds the songwriter retreating to the weird and wonderful confines of his Calgary basement, where he primarily recorded the album on an old tape machine and JVC ghetto blaster. According to his label Sub Pop, the full-length also "retains the handmade charm and singular character of his previous records, while incorporating new layers of sophistication and weight. And with titles like "Cries of the Dead, "Phantom Anthills, "Poisonous Heads and "TMNT Mask, it seems VanGaalen is has lost neither sense of humour nor his taste for death.
Here is the Soft Airplane tracklisting:
1. "Willow Tree
2. "Bones of Man
3. "Cries of the Dead
4. "Inside the Molecules
5. "Bare Feet on Wet Griptape
6. "Phantom Anthills
7. "Poisonous Heads
8. "TMNT Mask
9. "Molten Light
10. "Old Man + the Sea
11. "City of Electric Light
12. "Rabid Bits of Time
13. "Frozen Energon