Chad Vangaalen

Chad Vangaalen:

Boasting seemingly senseless lyrics, contagious melodies, excellent one-liners and a complete lack of respect for the music industry standard of rock ’n roll, Chad Vangaalen deftly defies mediocrity, and blazes new trails into the relatively uncharted jungles of indi-licious, folk-tronica.

Vangaalen’s new offering, Skelliconnection is tacked up on the Subpop wall along with the early 90s giant Nirvana, who busted the scene open in its own day and passed the torch down the line to Vangaalen who continues the arduous task of breaking music’s jaw and reshaping its face one album at a time. The new record starts more on the electronic, toy box-rock side of things with Flower Gardens and Burn 2 Ash, but Red Hot Drops comes along early on with a mellow groove and melody Viking Rainbow and Dandruff.  By the time See-Through-Skin’s harmonica/computerized keyboard lead is over you’re pretty sure that if Bob Dylan ever dies and comes back as a robot, he’ll sound a lot like that. The fun and games continues with Wind Driving Dogs and Mini T.V.’s, but from the outset of Sing Me 2 Sleep, you know Vangaalen is up to something new. This time, he’s cooking up a beautiful, well composed acoustic tune that gives you everything you could hope for in such a song, proving that after all the unusual music and strange lyrics, Chad Vangaalen really just loves you, and he wants you to be happy.

that send you to the space-out zone. He hits a stride with the one-liner brilliance of this track, and you never want it to end, but like all good things, it’s gone before you know it. From this point on, the CD delves into a country, rocky, folksy spot punctuated every now and then with indescribable electro-noise ditties,

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