Chad VanGaalen

Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, singer/songwriter Chad VanGaalen produces a delightfully calming indie rock appear. His airy falsetto is definitely part Christopher Mix and component Thom Yorke, and enthusiasts of Broken Sociable Picture, Band of Horses, and Destroyer should discover the appeal in VanGaalen’s crazy creativity. Since 1998, the quirky VanGaalen offers drafted a huge selection of tracks well-tailored for indie rock and roll fans older and fresh. In 2004, the Calgary label Flemish Attention gathered a few of these tracks collectively for VanGaalen’s 1st recording, Infiniheart. Sub Pop inked VanGaalen for an American offer a year later on and reissued a reassembled edition of Infiniheart. Skelliconnection found its way to August 2006. Soft Aircraft, his second recording for Sub Pop, premiered in Sept 2008, and presented a toon video for “Molten Light” that he illustrated and cartoon himself. In ’09 2009, VanGaalen released the mainly instrumental and electronic-oriented experimental recording Snow Blindness Is definitely Crystal Antz beneath the name Dark Mold. After making two albums for Flemish Eyes labelmates Females, VanGaalen came back with Diaper Isle in 2011. A calendar year later, he started focusing on an cartoon research fiction feature known as Translated Log of Inhabitants. Preceding its discharge, he released his fifth record, Shrink Dirt, in Apr 2014, that is partly a soundtrack towards the film.