Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
(Flemish Eye) CD & 2LP
On Skelliconnection, CVG’s homespun basement antics wandered too often in the realm of tedium instead of enchantment; with Soft Airplane, he’s refined things a little & the outcome is a doozy. All facets of CVG’s musical persona are in top form, from his acoustic meaderings, to his fuzzed out rock all the way through to the digital experiments that have up until now, been a bit of a toss up. The beautiful Neil Young-influenced acoustic quiver of Infiniheart returns here on opener “Willow Tree” & “City Of Electric Light”. “TMNT Mask” along with comical subject matter, wields CVG’s most effective electro/techno adventure, an undeniably catchy romp in bleepville. “Inside The Molecules” & “Bones Of Man” rock a little, while “Phantom Anthills” & “Frozen Energon” blitz you with synthetic textures & post-production glitchisms. This album is a total hi-5!