Starting with 2007’s brilliant The Moonstation House Band, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Vandervelde
began a slow-burning career, offering the world a look at his bounding
and hook-heavy music, melodic but swaggering indie rock styled heavily
after the thick riffs of T. Rex and the wanton weirdness of Bowie. A
follow-up album came the next year but then things got quieter on the
Vandervelde front. Over the next six years, multiple moves, the sudden
death of long-time friend and collaborator (and former Wilco member) Jay
Bennett, and the dissolution of his marriage all kept Vandervelde busy,
not to mention sitting in with other acts and doing production work on
other artists’ recordings.
