Album Review: Infiniheart by Chad VanGaalen

Aslightly overlong, everything-I-had-in-the-cupboard DIY debut picked up from a tiny Canadian label, Infiniheart none the less contains some of this year's most original and moving songwriting, and displays a breathtaking virtuosity and inventiveness on the part of its creator, who also produces, and plays virtually everything. As a lyricist, Van Gaalen makes even the best of his contemporaries seem banal. Infiniheart's most extraordinary song, Blood Machine, posits an underground city whose inhabitants are linked to a giant central heart circulating blood between them; fatally connected, they plead for communal extinction.

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