David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band

David Vandervelde appeared before Secretly Canadian one hot summer day like a dynamo.   The sound they heard coming through the stereo was that of their coming-of-age years screaming back at them - a faithful reminder that their beauteous days of bowing before pin-up rock stars and carving iconographic logos on desktops and in famous treetrunks had not passed them by.   Bearing a resemblance to Marc Bolan and David Bowie, deeper listening rewards the listener with a much broader musical universe. ‘The Moonstation House Band’ album captures the highlights from his two-year immersion in Jay Bennett's Clubhouse - as Vandervelde refers to the studio in Chicago - where he isolated himself to record this record virtually on his own, using the former Wilco multi-instrumentalist's studio as a big toy instrument, enjoying access to much of the same gear as used on ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ and ‘Being There’.

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