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'.