# Soft Airplane

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Soft Airplane
| type       = [Album](/source/Album)
| artist     = [Chad VanGaalen](/source/Chad_VanGaalen)
| cover      = Vangaalen-airplane.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = September 9, 2008
| recorded   = 2008
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = {{flatlist|
* [Indie rock](/source/Indie_rock)
* [folk](/source/folk_music)
* [experimental](/source/experimental_music)
}}
| length     = 42:00
| label      = [Flemish Eye](/source/Flemish_Eye)<br />[Sub Pop](/source/Sub_Pop)
| producer   = Chad VanGaalen
| prev_title = [Skelliconnection](/source/Skelliconnection)
| prev_year  = 2006
| next_title = [Diaper Island](/source/Diaper_Island)
| next_year  = 2011
}}

{{Album ratings
| MC = 74/100<ref name="meta">{{Cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/soft-airplane/chad-vangaalen |title=Reviews for Soft Airplane by Chad VanGaalen |publisher=[Metacritic](/source/Metacritic) |accessdate=April 4, 2017}}</ref>
| rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1417118|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
| rev2 = ''[Paste](/source/Paste_(magazine))''
| rev2score = (8.8/10)<ref>[http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/09/chad-vangaalen-soft-airplane.html Paste review]</ref>
| rev3 = [Pitchfork Media](/source/Pitchfork_Media)
| rev3score = (7.7/10)<ref>[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146494-chad-vangaalen-soft-airplane Pitchfork Media review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101001946/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146494-chad-vangaalen-soft-airplane |date=2008-11-01 }}</ref>
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'''''Soft Airplane''''' is the third album by [Chad VanGaalen](/source/Chad_VanGaalen), released in 2008 on [Flemish Eye](/source/Flemish_Eye) and [Sub Pop](/source/Sub_Pop). It was VanGaalen's first album to consist entirely of songs newly recorded for the album; his prior releases compiled tracks from a library of home recordings he had made over a number of years.

The album was shortlisted for the [2009 Polaris Music Prize](/source/2009_Polaris_Music_Prize).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fucked Up Win Polaris Prize |url=http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/fucked-up-win-polaris-prize |publisher=Clickmusic |date=2009-09-23 |access-date=2010-11-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312043151/http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/fucked-up-win-polaris-prize |archive-date=2012-03-12 }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| all_writing = [Chad VanGaalen](/source/Chad_VanGaalen)
| title1 = Willow Tree
| length1 = 3:13
| title2 = Bones of Man
| length2 = 2:59
| title3 = Cries of the Dead
| length3 = 3:47
| title4 = Inside the Molecules
| length4 =3:45
| title5 = Bare Feet on Wet Griptape 
| length5 = 2:30
| title6 = Phantom Anthills 
| length6 = 3:00
| title7 = Poisonous Heads
| length7 = 3:15
| title8 = TMNT Mask
| length8 = 3:29
| title9 = Molten Light 
| length9 = 2:51
| title10 = Old Man + The Sea
| length10 = 3:35
| title11 = City of Electric Light 
| length11 = 2:32
| title12 = Rabid Bits of Time
| length12 = 3:24
| title13 = Frozen Energon
| length13 = 3:40
| total_length = 42:17
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:2008 albums
Category:Chad VanGaalen albums
Category:Flemish Eye albums
Category:Sub Pop albums

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