Shrink Dust

Description

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