Chad VanGaalen’s latest and greatest record, Shrink Dust, has been pelted with many favorable accolades from the music glitteratti in the short time that it’s been available on record store shelves, and with good reason, it’s really G-D great (don’t take my word from it, read some of the accolades below). Chad recently took to the Seattle-based radio station,KEXP, for a live, in-studio performance, and true to form, Chad delivered an amazing, beautiful, charming, funny, and weird one-man-band-style show. Check that out in the embedded player.
See Chad with a full band at any one of these fine venues:
June 15 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios*
June 17 - San Francisco, CA - Brick & Mortar Music Hall*
June 18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo*
June 19 - Oakland, CA - LEO’S*
June 20 - Eugene, OR - Sam Bond’s Garage*
June 21 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern*
June 22 - Spokane, WA - The Bartlett*
Aug. 31 - North Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
Sep. 01 - London, UK - Oslo
Sep. 02 - Paris, FR - Point FMR
Sep. 04 - Gent, BE - DOK
Sep. 06 - Vlieland, NL - Into the Great Wide Open Festival
Sep. 07 - Hamburg, DE - Aalhaus
Sep. 08 - Berlin, DE - Kantine Berghain
Sep. 09 - Arhus, DK - Radar
Sep. 11- Stockholm, SE - Stacken
Sep. 12 - Copenhagen, DK - Ideal Bar
Sep. 13 - Cologne, DE - King Georg
Sep. 14 - Amsterdam, NL - DOK
Sep. 15 - Tilburg, NL - Incubate
* w/ Cousins
What People Have Said About Chad VanGaalen’s Shrink Dust:
“His latest, Shrink Dust,
is possibly his best, and certainly his most confident…Chad VanGaalen’s
world is weird, but never just for weird’s sake—his creations spring
from deep inside the singular, twisted mind of their creator, and Shrink Dust is the closest we’ve come yet to getting inside his head.” [Review] - Pitchfork
“It’s an album that wears its weirdness on its sleeve, but it’s the best kind of weird, and a joy to listen to.” [Review, 8/10] - FILTER
“There’s something deeply relatable about the flawed protagonists of ‘Weighed Sin’ and ‘Monster’, whose callow whimsy masks a more disquieting melancholia. This madcap might raise the occasional laugh, but inside he’s crying, and for all your voyeuristic unease, you won’t be able to look away. [Review, 8/10] - NME
“Frankly, it’s eccentrically charming and something that he proves elsewhere time and again, with the cooed loveliness of the ominously titled ‘Evil’, as well as the swirling refrain and sprawling, gossamer of influences found on ‘Cosmic Destroyer’, making for wondrously floaty highpoints.” [Review, 8/10] - Loud & Quiet
“For those who like their space-age folk rock with a strong sense of humility, it doesn’t get much chiller than this.” [Review, 8/10]- Exclaim!
“Van Gaalen is basically a visionary with a guitar, a lot of oddball instruments and recording gear, and this album is meditative and spooky, an appealing continuation of his fire-hose like output.” [Review] - Relix