Hailing from Calgary, singer/songwriter
Chad VanGaalen creates a delightfully soothing indie rock sound. His airy falsetto is part
Christopher Cross and part
Thom Yorke, and fans of
Broken Social Scene,
Band of Horses, and
Destroyer should find the charm in
VanGaalen's wild imagination. Since 1998, the quirky
VanGaalen has drafted hundreds of songs well-tailored for indie rock fans old and new. In 2004, the Calgary label Flemish Eye gathered some of these songs together for
VanGaalen's first album,
Infiniheart. Sub Pop inked
VanGaalen to an American deal a year later and reissued a reassembled version of
Infiniheart.
Skelliconnection arrived in August 2006.
Soft Airplane, his second album for Sub Pop, was released in September 2008, and featured a cartoon video for "Molten Light" that he illustrated and animated himself. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide