Your humble Kaypo host is first and foremost proud to announce the birth of my gorgeous twin daughters. They’re asleep next to me as I write this and redefining “cute” with every passing second.
Now, very little is exciting to me in music these days. I’m not sure if it is a product of getting older and generally musically cynical, but it seems I’ve heard it all before and not a lot is filling my fancy box.
Used to be (adopt cranky old man voice if you like for much of this post) I watched release dates of bands carefully and entered record stores with the same excitement as reaching the end of the line for the Mine Buster at Canada’s Wonderland – here we go, this is going to be awesome! Not so now.
ChadVanGaalen is one of the few releases I’ve been looking forward to for a while now. He’s a singer songwriter from Calgary and there’s something very authentic and heartbreaking about his work. His frail yet purposeful vocals, his dark, storytelling lyrics, his rootsy instrumentation mixed with whatever fucked up sounds he blends in – it works. This is his third record and here’s a track.
Here’s a track from his last album
