{"title":"Chad VanGaalen","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"shrink-dust","title":"Shrink Dust","description":"Shrink Dust is the fifth studio album by Canadian musician Chad VanGaalen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Track listing\u003cbr\u003e Cut Off My Hands\u003cbr\u003e Where Are You?\u003cbr\u003e Frozen Paradise\u003cbr\u003e Lila\u003cbr\u003e Weighed Sin\u003cbr\u003e Monster\u003cbr\u003e Evil\u003cbr\u003e Leaning on Bells\u003cbr\u003e All Will Combine\u003cbr\u003e Weird Love\u003cbr\u003e Hangman's Son\u003cbr\u003e Cosmic Destroyer","brand":"Chad VanGaalen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14753348976682,"sku":"SPCD1081","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/1125\/products\/a0511532192_10_3b936ca5-6e36-46e2-8e20-5336a13a1b64.jpg?v=1554763620"},{"product_id":"worlds-most-stressed-out-gardener-gold-vinyl","title":"World's Most Stressed Out Gardener (Gold Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e2020 was a terrible year for gardening. It was terrible for peppers, it was terrible for tomatoes, it was terrible for the condition of the soul. But Chad VanGaalen somehow raised a garden all the same: carrots and sprouts and broccoli and a revivifying new album, all of them grown at home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a record that gleams with VanGaalen's musical signatures: found sound, reverb, polychromatic folk music that is by turns cartoonish and hyperphysical—like ultra magnified footage of a virus or a leaf. Apparently, the LP began life as a \"pretty minimal\" flute record. (There's only a vestige now, on \"Flute Peace\"—one of three instrumentals.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLater it became an electronic record \"for a while\" and finally, \"right at the last second,\" it \"turned into a pile of garbage.\" The good kind of garbage: glinting, useful, free. Music as compost—leaves, and branches ready to be re-ingested by the earth, turned into a flower. Throughout these 40 minutes, VanGaalen floats from mania to solace to oblivion, searching for zen in all the wrong places. \"Turn up the radio \/ I think we’re dead,\" he sings on \"Nothing Is Strange\"; or, on the inside-out rocker \"Nightmare Scenario\": \"You’re stressed out when you should be feeling very well.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhereas once he would obsess over mic techniques, now he puts the microphone in the same place every time—trying to capture a song quickly, the idea at its heart. He'll act on his infatuations—for the flute, a squeaky clarinet, his basement's copper plumbing (remade into xylophones for \"Samurai Sword\")—and then he'll try to get out, \"veering away from responsibility,\" before he overdoes his stay. In the end, it's like gardening. You have to live with your horrible decision-making; the weather's going to fuck you if it wants to; and if you plant a hundred heads of broccoli, \"now you gotta eat a hundred heads of broccoli—or watch them go to seed.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut mostly VanGaalen just tries to be a deer: \"I remember seeing some deer come out in the Okanagan Valley once,\" he says, \"watching them wait for a sunbeam to hit a perfect bunch of grapes—and then eating them right out of the sunbeam. I'd recommend that.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease date: 19th March, 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Spider Milk\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Flute Peace\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Starlight\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Where Is It All Going?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Earth From a Distance\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Nightwaves\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Plant Music\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Nothing Is Strange\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. Inner Fire\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. Golden Pear\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. Nightmare Scenario\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. Samurai Sword\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. Water Brother\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chad VanGaalen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39313547329720,"sku":"SP1408","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/1125\/products\/494458-Product-0-I-637478579536564882_800x800_c7456e33-083d-44b3-b165-0e2d614c59af.jpg?v=1615260251"}],"url":"https:\/\/malaysia.jeffthistle.com\/collections\/chad-vangaalen.oembed","provider":"Warner Music Australasia Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}