Chad VanGaalen Tickets

While his first albums hinted at musical reference points (that even Chad seemed to be reluctant to embrace), Chad VanGaalen's Soft Airplane reveals an artist utterly in stride - confident enough to span genres, while working with a determined and deliberate focus.

Freed somehow from expectations or restrictions, Chad's musical expression seems both focused and unfettered. The songs trace stories of birth and death, reflecting changes in his life over the two years since Skelliconnection, and cocoon the listener in a distinctive and unique world. Layered with a lush and complex mix of found sounds, vibraphone, corrupted synthesizers and drum machines, accordions, cello, clarinet, guitars and many others, Soft Airplane remains spacious and surges with pop-informed sophistication despite its lo-fi recording origins.