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"Sara"from the album Diaper Island2011iTunesChad VanGaalen stays busy. Since 2005, he's released four albums under his own name, as well as the offbeat instrumental Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz as Black Mold â€" opiated pop that falls on the more hallucinatory side...
Chad Vangaalen - Soft Airplane (2008) -
Calgary seems to be on a role in the last few years. The littlest big city in the confederation seems to be pumping out quality artists in number disproportionate to its size. With Leslie Feist leading the cavalcade (yes, I’m including Feist), Cow-town now has groups like the Dudes, Azeda...
Chad Vangaalen - Diaper Island (2011) -
Usually I'm very skeptical when I hear about an artist that's getting lots of hype on the Interwebs. I'm particularly wary when it's a folk-based artist. That's because my tastes often to jive with those "tastemakers". That has definitely been the case with Calgary's Chad VanGaalen.At first, his new album...
Chad VanGaalen -
Chad VanGaalen's album artwork for his latest record, Soft Airplane, is colorful and childlike, depicting a series of figures that seem to transform horizontally from human to bird. The final figure, the bird, releases a musical notation from its open mouth into a dialogue bubble. VanGaalen's music suggests the relationship...
Okkervil River: I Am Very Far -
Few bands are more acclaimed than Austin, Texas’ Okkervil River. Rock critic clichĂ©s like “hyper-literate lyrics” and “atmospheric indie-rock” aboundâ€"but that never seemed to matter on the 2005 breakthrough Black Sheep Boy and its follow-ups The Stage Names and The Stand Ins as Okkervil scrawled out gothic folk rock tales...
Sunset Rubdown -
"Idiot Heart"from the album Dragonslayer2009iTunesSpencer Krug made his name with the Montreal indie warriors Wolf Parade, but he sounds even more dementedly great as the dungeon master of Sunset Rubdown. As you might guess from the title, Dragonslayer is a feast...
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