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Chad Van Gaalen
Chad Van Gaalen is a Canadian musician from Alberta who started putting out solo work in the mid-2000s. His debut album 'Infiniheart' came out in 2004,...
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1000 Pound Eyelids
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After The Afterlife
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Bare Feet On Wet Griptape
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Blood Machine
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Bones Of Man
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Build a Home Like a Bee
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Cries Of The Dead
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Dead Ends
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Echo Train
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Flower Gardens
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Graveyard
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I Miss You Like I Miss You
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Inside The Molecules
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Kill Me In My Sleep
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Liquid + Light
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Molten Light
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Chad Van Gaalen is a Canadian musician from Alberta who started putting out solo work in the mid-2000s. His debut album 'Infiniheart' came out in 2004, followed by records like 'Soft Airplane' in 2008 and 'Diaper Island' in 2012. He tends to work alone on stage, though he's brought in other players for recordings at times.
His songs often have a raw, unsettled quality to them, with titles like 'Cries Of The Dead,' '1000 Pound Eyelids,' and 'Bare Feet On Wet Griptape' suggesting a certain haunted atmosphere. The music can feel both spare and densely layered, built around his voice and guitar but opening up into stranger textures.
Van Gaalen has worked with a range of other artists, from the experimental rock group Black Mountain to the songwriter Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. He keeps making records on his own terms, letting the songs sit in that space between straightforward melody and something more abstract.
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