Soft Airplane is the third album by Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician and artist from Calgary, Alberta.-Infiniheart:Following a few scattered independent releases, done mostly on homemade CDs with hand-drawn art, VanGaalen released Infiniheart on Canadian independent label Flemish Eye...

, released in 2008 on Flemish Eye

Flemish Eye

Flemish Eye is a record label started in 2003 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The first release was Infiniheart by Chad VanGaalen, which was picked up in 2005 by indie label Sub Pop. From the success of Infiniheart, the label has earnestly developed a mandate of assisting Calgary-based musicians and...

 and Sub Pop

Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

. It was VanGaalen's first album to consist entirely of songs newly recorded for the album; his prior releases compiled tracks from a library of home recordings he had made over a number of years.

The album was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize

2009 Polaris Music Prize

The 2009 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2009 in Toronto at the Masonic Temple and broadcast live online for the first time in its short history...

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Track listing

All songs written by Chad VanGaalen.

1. "Willow Tree"
2. "Bones of Man"
3. "Cries of the Dead"
4. "Inside the Molecules"
5. "Bare Feet on Wet Griptape"
6. "Phantom Anthills"
7. "Poisonous Heads"
8. "TMNT Mask"
9. "Molten Light"
10. "Old Man + The Sea"
11. "City of Electric Light"
12. "Rabid Bits of Time"
13. "Frozen Energon"