World's Most Stressed Out Gardener
Holed up in his DIY inventor’s laboratory, VanGaalen delivers his most abrasive, unstable collection in years. Even this notorious Canadian recluse can't stop a little apocalyptic dread from creeping in.
With a title to match its chaotic tone, World's Most Stressed Out Gardener is the seventh album from Chad VanGaalen, the Calgary-based singer, songwriter, and illustrator known for his eclectic kitchen-sink style and peculiar visual aesthetic.
The best Chad VanGaalen albums don't have a consistent mood, style or even instrumental palette. Rather, they feel like anything-goes dispat...
Now that the pandemic has been around for a full year, we are partially past the records that were delayed or wrapped up under quarantine, and on to albums that are directly influenced by this long spell of social distance and degrees of despair. Though its origins pre-date the global debacle, Calgary’s sound-and-visionary Chad VanGaalen side-eyes the abyss on his seventh-or-so studio album, World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener.
Turns out Chad VanGaalen isn't as chilled out as we thought – but that doesn't make World's Most Stressed Out Gardener any less interesting
Everyone tried to grow a garden in 2020. Some of them took up large tracts of land; some of them lived on tiny decks
World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener by Chad VanGaalen album review by Adam Fink. The album is out today on Flemish Eye/Sub Pop Records