Soft Airplane

{{Infobox album

| name = Soft Airplane

| type = Album

| artist = Chad VanGaalen

| cover = Vangaalen-airplane.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 9, 2008

| recorded = 2008

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Indie rock
• folk
• experimental

}}

| length = 42:00

| label = Flemish Eye
Sub Pop

| producer = Chad VanGaalen

| prev_title = Skelliconnection

| prev_year = 2006

| next_title = Diaper Island

| next_year = 2011

}}

{{Album ratings

| MC = 74/100{{Cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/soft-airplane/chad-vangaalen |title=Reviews for Soft Airplane by Chad VanGaalen |publisher=Metacritic |accessdate=April 4, 2017}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1417118|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

| rev2 = Paste

| rev2score = (8.8/10)[http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/09/chad-vangaalen-soft-airplane.html Paste review]

| rev3 = Pitchfork Media

| rev3score = (7.7/10)[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 }}

}}

Soft Airplane is the third album by Chad VanGaalen, released in 2008 on Flemish Eye and 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.{{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 }}