Tagged: cityofelectriclight

This morning's song is from my fellow Calgarian Chad VanGaalen . Rabid Bits of Time became one my favorite Chad VanGaalen pieces after watching him perform it at this year's Polaris Music Prize gala; it was one of the most intense performances I have ever witnessed. The song can be found on VanGaalen's moody third full-length album Soft Airplane , released in September of 2008. Like many of his songs, Rabid Bits of Time dances with the universal concept of our mortality, and the consequence of said mortality. For more from Soft Airplane, check out [...]

Tonight's post features another tune from the two-time Polaris Music Prize nominated Calgarian Chad VanGaalen . City of Electric Light can be found on VanGaalen's third full-length album Soft Airplane , released in September of 2008. In 2007, VanGaalen's Skelliconnection album was short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize, eventually bowing out to the winner Close to Paradise , from Patrick Watson . This year, Soft Airplane goes up against an array of amazing Canadian albums from the likes of Metric , Joel Plaskett , Hey Rosetta! , [...]

Written by Fense The animation in the video for "Molten Light" by Chad VanGaalen reminds me a lot of the animation signature of the late 80s and early 90s. You know the kind - gross for the sake of being gross; a sort of, well, faux art. There were plenty of bands from that era that slapped the crap on their album covers - Ugly Kid Joe and Big Black are a few that come to mind. But here, there's a key "fortunate" element, and that is its association with the [...]

• Chad VanGaalen - City of Electric Light
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