The album is composed of new songs as well as tracks previously released on his earlier independent recordings and features exclusive artwork[5] and videos made by VanGaalen.

Vangaalen toured Soft Airplane extensively, performing live dates throughout North America, Europe, and the UK throughout 2008 and 2009.

Vangaalen opted to tour with Flemish Eye label mates Women for many of his performances, allowing him to utilize certain bandmembers as his backing band.

On 11 August 2009, VanGaalen released a full-length album Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz under the alias Black Mold.

VanGaalen is sometimes assisted live by Matt Flegel and Scott "Monty" Munro, both of the post-punk band Preoccupations, and drummer Eric Hamelin from No More Shapes.

[12] In 2015, VanGaalen collaborated with Seth Smith of the indie rock band Dog Day on the album Seed of Dorzon.