I’ve had my official first listen of Chad Vangaalen’s album Soft Airplane, which is due to come out on September 9th, and I’ve been in a complete mind numbing musical daze since. The album has transported me into this crazy dream world, filled with cartoon characters and evil monsters. Earlier, I wrote a post about Chad Van’s performance at Sled Island, where he played many of the album tracks live, and now, after hearing the recorded album, I appreciate it all so much more. Chad reaches this complete perfection in the album, he hits every different genre of music perfectly, and shows an incredible confidence in his haunting and beautiful voice, especially in “Molten Light”, which I know is going to become my most played song of September/October/however longer. Also, I would like to say, I am still getting used to how awesome and abundant live music is in Montreal and I’m going to have to start making a concert calendar as to not double book my evenings, so anyways, Chad VanGaalen is playing October 3rd at Pop Montreal alongside Women and Julie Doiron!!!!!
I am Tamara, I live in Montreal, Quebec.
I do not speak french
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Excellent album! Such a great mix of electro/acoustic and the lyrics are delightfully dark. Thanks for posting about him since he had gotten lost in the shuffle with all the other SubPop artists I was listening to! He is coming to Dublin at the end of Nov so don’t have to wait too long for the live fix.
Thanks for the add on the blogroll as well:-)
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