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Chad VanGaalen: Soft Airplane

By
Sara Miller
on September 15, 2008 1:45 PM |
Songwriter continues to finely hone his unique, affecting DIY style

From Stevie Wonder and Todd Rundgren to Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, self-sufficiency in recording—being your own one-man band—has served as more than just a badge of honor. It's also a disarmingly simple way to maintain consistency over the course of multiple albums, if not a career. On Soft Airplane, bedroom/basement-recording aficionado Chad VanGaalen still plays nearly every instrument in the mix, as he did on previous LPs Infiniheart  and Skelliconnection, but something's changed. Where earlier albums could seem scattershot, with tracks independently culled from hundreds of stockpiled songs, Soft Airplane is concise and fully-realized.
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Chad VanGaalen to launch Soft Airplane on Sept. 9

By
Sara Miller
on August 27, 2008 7:08 AM |
photo by Marc Rimmer
If there were a musical Olympics, Canadian artist Chad VanGaalen would be its Michael Phelps. As VanGaalen crouches on the starting block awaiting the Sept. 9 release of his third LP, Soft Airplane, let's check out his stats.
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