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- Summary: This is the third full-length album from the Canadian artist.
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Soft Airplane is a little scary (and dark and dank), yet filled with untold creative surprises and delights.
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What is clear, though, is that this is a finely drawn, funny, animated, and gumdrop authentic record, never less than fascinating in its endless and disburdening involutions.
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FilterThe singer's quivering tenor is still fixated on death and a dystopian future....It'd be scarier if it didn't follow a song about a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume, but that's VanGaalen's charm. [Fall 2008, p.98]
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An intimate, intelligent, and always transporting cycle of songs that sends VanGaalen closer to his own voice and, in the process, closer to us.
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His most complete album to date, Chad Van Gaalen's Soft Airplane carries aisles of contradictions through turbulence and diffused sunlight. Here, the talented artist plays to his strengths.
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It’s the album’s contradictions and candid emotional messiness that make it exciting.
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Ultimately, your appreciation of the quaintly crafted pop ditties on Soft Airplane will depend on your tolerance for listening to an adult male trying to sound like a naive little boy.
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