Shrink Dust

Description

The Canadian produces his masterpiece. Shrink Dust is CHAD VANGAALEN’s fifth album and surely his most accomplished work. A great fan of esoteric instruments, CHAD acquired a pedal steel guitar which he played for a year before recording it. His experiments with the instrument unify the album, as do themes of death, transformation, fear, ordinary evil, and the eccentricity of love. In a way, despite its complexity, Shrink Dust is perhaps also CHAD's most accessible record. For those who open up to it, his musical adventure illuminates a colorful, playful and lasting path. "Bizarre and beautiful science fiction, an organic and electronic cabaret, often sober songs from which dense, strange and unprecedented growths emerge, which VanGaalen's limitless brain seems to have been haunted by forever." Les Inrockuptibles.