Chad Vangaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener

Vinyl LP pressing.

2020 was a terrible year for gardening.

It was terrible for peppers, it was terrible for tomatoes, it was terrible for the condition of the soul.

But Chad VanGaalen somehow raised a garden all the same: carrots and sprouts and broccoli and a revivifying new album, all of them grown at home.

He likes to eat directly off the plant, he says - "I get down on my knees and graze.

It's nice to feel the vegetables in your face" - and the 13 songs on World's Most Stressed Out Gardener were harvested with just such a spirit: in their raw state, young and vegetal, at the very moment, they were made.