Song Review
Up tonight is another haunting installment from Calgary’s favorite indie/experimental-rock artist Chad VanGaalen. VanGaalen demonstrates his talent as an animator/illustrator with the video that accompanies Molten Light, and allows us to be pleasantly horrified both visually and sonically. The song itself can be found on VanGaalen’s 3rd full-length effort Soft Airplane, released in September of 2008 via Flemish Eye and Sub Pop record labels. The album would successfully traverse the Canadian gauntlet known as the Polaris Music Prize jury in 2009 and find it’s way onto the 10-album shortlist; VanGaalen’s previous full-length album Skelliconnection would also land on the Polaris shortlist in 2007. On a humorous aside, I was pointed in the direction of one of the most bizarre videos I have ever watched recently. To see a very young Chad VanGaalen performing a “Stupid Human Trick” on the Late Show with David Letterman, click here and skip to 2:34. For more from VanGaalen, we’ve also posted the songs below.
Chad VanGaalen – Rabid Bits of Time
Chad VanGaalen – City of Electric Light
Chad VanGaalen – Willow Tree
They dumped her body into the molten light
Floated to the surface and it did not ignite
She rose up slowly and walked to the shore
She stood up on the bank and whispered
I’ll find you and I’ll kill you
I’ll find you and I’ll kill you
I’ll find you and I’ll kill you
They ran back into town and hid in the church
They explained their situation and they feared for the worst
The priest told the brothers that she could not be killed
She flew out of the stone cold ground and
She’ll find you and she’ll kill you
She’ll find you and she’ll kill you
She’ll find you and she’ll kill you
Oh oh oh oh…
There was a knock at that door that shook through their hearts
She blew it right open and put it apart
She shot a string of flame from the center of her chest
As she watched their bodies burn she whispered
I found you and I killed you
I found you and I killed you
I found you and I killed you
