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8.0
65013
8.0 |
musicOMH
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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8.0
65016
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
VanGaalen once again proves to be the curious, gripping songwriter we’ve come to know and cherish
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8.0
65097
8.0 |
NME
Disturbing melancholic freak-folk from the Canadian musician
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7.8
65182
7.8 |
Pitchfork
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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7.5
65105
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
The record deals with some hefty topics, but they don’t seem as insurmountable through VanGaalen’s lens
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7.0
65131
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Shrink Dust is really about a guy and his guitar singing songs that previously might have been composed in outer space instead of his home town in Alberta, Canada
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7.0
65934
7.0 |
Under The Radar
There's something so earnest about VanGaalen's output that however much we've heard it all before, we don't mind hearing it again.
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7.0
65063
7.0 |
Uncut
An album that twitchily turns away from a pat genre tag. Print edition only
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7.0
65181
7.0 |
The Music
His experimentation can be testing, but that’s far more subtle here
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6.0
65144
6.0 |
Earbuddy
Chad VanGaalen hasn’t creatively stalled, but he’s found his sweet-spot
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6.0
65012
6.0 |
Clash
The scope and ambition are to be applauded, and it’s a treat to take a voyage around his mind and beyond
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6.0
65017
6.0 |
The List
An illustration of the ways in which VanGaalen's ever-evolving, divergent art forms – films/ graphics/music/physical creations – have bled through, fed off and morphed into each other for 15 years or so
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6.0
65014
6.0 |
The Skinny
Revels in his ability to wrap this decidedly unusual fare in soft, warm sheets of pathos, rendering even his more grotesque lines somewhat beautiful
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6.0
65015
6.0 |
DIY
VanGaalen is an explorative soul and although his frightening world is separate from ours, he makes a peaceful journey of it
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5.0
65137
5.0 |
The Digital Fix
With its blend of familiar, friendly folk-ish songs, and strange, aggressively distracting alternia, you may not necessarily like Shrink Dust but you may appreciate it
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