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MagnetMay 19, 2014It's his best work to date. [No. 109, p.61]
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Sep 3, 2014It’s in the songs that teeter on the edge, where the twang feels like the last button pressed before an apocalypse, that Shrink Dust becomes special.
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May 29, 2014A free-form lyrical approach leads Vangaalen into phantasmically beautiful byways, with both the music and the words floating up and away.
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Apr 29, 2014This album is much more interesting and engaging than Diaper, but just like with that album, the dancey, synth-heavy songs like Airplane's "TMNT Mask" are absent.
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Apr 29, 2014It’s an album that wears its weirdness on its sleeve, but it’s the best kind of weird, and a joy to listen to.
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Apr 28, 2014This 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.
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Apr 25, 2014For those who like their space-age folk rock with a strong sense of humility, it doesn't get much chiller than this.
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Apr 25, 2014It takes you on something of a journey, veering from country to garage rock to something almost literally out-of-this-world.
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Apr 24, 2014The songs are still there, though, even more so than on 2011’s Diaper Island.
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May 2, 2014Chad 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.
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Apr 29, 2014Ever the tinkerer, Shrink Dust expands VanGaalen’s immense talents to even more uncharted, exciting territory.
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Jan 12, 2015This batch of songs also proffers some unvandalized melodies (often with echoes of Neil Young) and some glimmers of heart amid the phantasmagoria.
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May 22, 2014Shrink Dust is ultimately VanGaalen doing what VanGaalen does best: beguilingly wonky folk-rock that's equally at ease tugging at your heartstrings or hitting you with ominous promises of revenge and heartfelt confessions of sin.
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Apr 29, 2014Shrink Dust is still very much a CVG record, just one that you can cozy up with a little easier.
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Apr 28, 2014Shrink Dust has some truly inspired moments and fits right in with VanGaalen's building mythology.
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Apr 24, 2014The self-produced LP is a stimulating listen with some compelling lo-fi sonic tricks employed with little need for mainstream approval.
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UncutApr 24, 2014This is an album that twitchily turns away from a pat genre tag. [May 2014, p.81]