Name: Shrink Dust
Brand: Chad Vangaalen

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

spcd1081

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-05-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0098787108125

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Chad Vangaalen

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

<p>Chad Vangaalen is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter born in 1977 in Calgary, Alberta. With his unique blend of indie rock and folk influences, he has captivated audiences around the world. Known for his introspective lyrics and haunting melodies, Chad's music has been praised by critics and fans alike. Whether performing solo or with his band, he delivers powerful performances that leave a lasting impression. Discover Chad Vangaalen's mesmerizing soundscapes and thought-provoking storytelling today.</p>

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

Chad VanGaalen's blood flows by unrestrained creative impulses. He has never worked in a commercial recording studio. By his hands alone, one line, sound, shape or word leads organically to the next. In 2011, he wanted to score a science fiction film, so he started making one.The first episode of his animated feature, Translated Log of Inhabitants, should be released this year, with a fully illustrated D&amp;D-esque compendium of 150 associated characters. 'Shrink Dust', his fifth full-length album under his own name, is partially a score to this film, but it's also - in Chad's view - a country record. Always a fan of esoteric instruments, Chad recently acquired an aluminum pedal steel guitar, and began trying to figure out how to play it. His experiments with this instrument unify the album, along with themes of death, transformation, fear, benign evil, and the eccentricity of love. A newfound affection for The Flying Burrito Brothers, and the sci-fi mysticism of the 1980s graphic novel The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, were also significant in recent years.  Somehow, with all of its disparate influences and components, Shrink Dust might be one of the most accessible moments in Chad's creative life, simply because it is more apparent than ever how much fun he is having blurring the lines between the vivid worlds of his creation, and the world his audience inhabits.  For those who are open to it, Chad's adventures in music and art illuminate a path that is more colorful, playful, and sustainable than those commonly available to us. A path that is, most importantly, always changeable.You can see and hear his alternate reality through the artifacts he offers up.  But as it turns out, the only true access point into Chad VanGaalen's expanding universe is one's own will to create.LP with download.

Shrink Dust

Music GB