Summer Time Hits

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 300 vinyl-only copies in hand screen-printed sleeves; originally released as digital singles. David Vandervelde's very clothes were ablaze that day in his Nashville basement. And the only thing that was ever going to put the flames out was laying "Learn How to Hang" to tape. How else does a song so immediate come to be? The repeated mantra of its title, set to an exhilarating, tightly-wound Buckingham-like lick, is just as much Far East philosophy as it is the most serious of stoner advice. It's a self-effacing moment of clarity under the heat of a blowtorch. Same goes for its brother jam, "Wave Country," with its galloping, sunburst metal and inner-bitch-slap hook, "You ain't any cooler in the shade." And how could we, in good conscience, ever sit on songs so immediate for any longer than one red-hot heartbeat? Imagine if the teenagers in Footloose would have been fighting for their right to party whilst blasting a shit-ton of glam and bliss-metal. David Vandervelde would have ruled prom and then thrown the most righteous kegger ever, with "Checkin Out My Baby" and "Fancy Friends" on repeat. DV is on an absolute tear right now, churning out these rollicking nuggets of summers future like a man possessed. Some jams can't simply be placed on a release schedule months in advance. Songs like these should be loaded in our bow and shot out into the world, and Summer Time Hits collects these four Vandervelde instant classics.