synffChad VanGaalen crafts jangly junkyard-pop from his Calgary basement, a one-man whirlwind of homemade instruments like Lego-studded drum machines and thumb pianos that lend his songs a ramshackle warmth laced with body horror and sci-fi whimsy.
His cracked falsetto and pedal-steel twang evoke Neil…
15 roots·1 legacy
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Chad VanGaalen; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Women, Neil Young, Thurston Moore, Bry Webb + 11 more
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