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Chad VanGaalen has certainly been putting time in down in the basement of his Calgary pad. He produced the rangy debut full-length from his fellow Calgarians in Women and now, VanGaalen has emerged from the bottom floor with Soft Airplane, his third album and the follow-up to 2006's Skelliconnection.

The 13-track set, featuring VanGaalen's arsenal of handmade instruments and put to tape on a mess of analog machines, is due from Sub Pop in the U.S. and Flemish Eye in the Canada on September 9. The vinyl version (on Flemish Eye) features two bonus tracks. And if you pre-order it from either label, you get a bonus CD-R featuring three unreleased songs, including a new song and two "one-man-band versions" of Soft Airplane tracks. But you better hurry-- September 9 is tomorrow, and the pre-order stops being pre- on release date.

It all kinda makes you a little sheepish about that beer pong table in your own basement, no?

Soft Airplane:

01 Willow Tree
02 Bones of Man
03 Cries of the Dead
04 Inside the Molecules
05 Bare Feet on Wet Griptape
06 Phantom Anthills
07 Poisonous Heads
08 TMNT Mask
09 Molten Light
10 Old Man + the Sea
11 City of Electric Light
12 Rabid Bits of Time
13 Frozen Energon
14 LTD Edition Vehicles *
15 Eyes Like a House on Fire *

* vinyl-only bonus tracks

VanGaalen:

09-21 New York, NY – Blender Theater *
10-01 Quebec City, Quebec - Antenne-A !
10-02 Ottawa, Ontario – Zaphod Beeblebrox !
10-03 Montreal, Quebec – Ukranian Federation !^
10-04 Toronto, Ontario – The Mod Club !
10-09 Vancouver, British Columbia – Richard's on Richards
10-10 Victoria, British Columbia – Sugar Nightclub
10-11 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
10-12 Seattle, WA – Triple Door *
10-17 Edmonton, Alberta - McDougall United Church
10-25 Calgary, Alberta - The Uptown Stage
11-20 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
11-21 Den Haag, Netherlands - Crossing Border Festival
11-22 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
11-25 London, England - Borderline
11-26 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
11-27 Glasgow, Scotland - Captain's Rest
11-28 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Limelight
11-29 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
11-29 Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
12-04 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser

* with Giant Sand
! with Women
^ with Julie Doiron