Chad Vaangalen-Soft Airplane (2008)
Posted in Indie Rock on Mar 28th, 2009 No Comments »
There’s a poignant ease to these melodies, a sense of grace that taps straight into the moldy heritage of this thing we call modern indie rock; that, pretty much, legitimizes its startling onus through the strange and welcoming precepts we often catch in its sound. Chad Vaangalen has tightened his sound to the extent that it’s easy to overlook just how resourceful and morosely inventive this material can get. Music to him is not so much repository as a big five-fingered reference point, and the real joy is in hearing him cadge sound-off styles into something visionary and remarkably coherent.
Molten Light [2:51]
