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Track Listings
| 1. Sing Me To Sleep |
| 2. Flower Gardens |
| 3. Graveyard |
| 4. Systematic Heart |
| 5. Mini Tv's |
| 6. Gubbish |
| 7. Rolling Thunder |
| 8. Dead Ends |
| 9. Red Hot Drops |
| 10. Wind Driving Dogs |
| 11. Dandruff |
| 12. See Thru Skin |
| 13. Burn To Ash |
| 14. Viking Rainbows |
| 15. Wing Finger |
Product Description
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With the follow-up to last year's Infiniheart, Chad VanGaalen makes it clear he's fascinated by inventing hybrid words for his album titles. These are apt monikers, as they mirror his methodology as a songwriter and recording artist. Perhaps even more varied than its predecessor, Skelliconnection fearlessly marries pop smarts to a mad inventor's cabinet of tricks and surprises. Other than a series of visiting drummers, VanGaalen has again created these songs himself. The results can pummel, invite, hypnotize, cheer, or sadden--sometimes all within moments of each other. From the opening onslaught of "Flower Gardens" to the front porch strumming of "Wing Finger" and the melancholy lullaby of "Sing Me 2 Sleep," this disc has everything you'd normally find on a half-dozen different releases! And it all flows like a perfect stroll down a path in the woods. --David Greenberger
Album Description
Import double gatefold vinyl for Chad's Sub Pop release from the summer of 2006, containing an entire bonus album of some new material, some old outtakes, and a dance remix of ''Mini TVs''. Limited to 500 copies!
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, Even Brilliant Indie Pop, Oct 10 2006
By 221b BakerSt - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Skelliconnection (Audio CD)
VanGaalen is a Calgary based illustrator/animator/musician who recorded the 15 songs that make up "Skelliconnection" in his basement studio at home. This is by no means a lo-fi recording, though. Instead, it's a beautifully produced, stylistically diverse album that sounds like a collaboration between Devendra Banhart, Beck and the Moldy Peaches. Standout tracks include the rocker "Flower Garden," "Red Hot Drops," "See-Thru-Skin," "Dead Ends," and the lullaby-like "Sing Me 2 Sleep." This has to be one of the best indie releases this year, and one of the best albums of the year, period.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inscrutable, Kaleidescopic Indie Pop, Jun 27 2011
By A Blues In Drag - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Skelliconnection (Audio CD)
One of the most inscrutable artists I've heard in a long while, this Canadian one-man band exploits indie electronica, creepy folk and barn-burning rock and ends up with something utterly unique.I heard "Flower Gardens," this album's opening cut, on Sirius' Left of Center and immediately went online to order a copy. It's a barn-burning romp powered by pounding tom-toms and fuzzy, down-picked eighth notes on the bass. But there's nothing else on Skelliconnection that bears any resemblance to this song whatsoever.
Chad Van Gaalen is something of a musical chameleon, a highly imaginative and apparently wildly prolific one-man band who veers all over the place, stylistically, going wherever whimsy takes him. Luckily, he succeeds at most of what he attempts; whether it's metallic bluster ("Flower Gardens"), creepy folk ("Rolling Thunder") indie electronica ("Red Hot Drops"), Appalachian blues ("Wind Driving Dogs") or any number of other musical subgenres that pop up over the course of the album's 15 tracks. Van Gaalen's soaring falsetto occasionally recalls Thom Yorke or Neil Young. The lyrics are usually bizarre (conjuring pterodactyls, headless corpses, photosynthesis and graveyards) and the music jumps all over the place, but it never sounds like he's trying to get your attention.
By the time you reach the end of Skelliconnection, it's hard to believe you're still listening to the same album that started with "Flower Gardens."
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exactly what I expected, Aug 31 2007
By L. Nava - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Skelliconnection (Audio CD)
Saw the artist in Canada and recommend alternative rock/EMO listeners to check this CD out.
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