Album Notes

Dave Derby's musical career began auspiciously as the leader of 90's alt-rock heroes The Dambuilders, a band who was once decreed by Spin Magazine to be "the best unsigned band in America." A major label deal (East/West Atlantic) and several albums later, The Dambuilders disbanded, and soon after, Dave Derby recorded his first solo outing under the moniker Brilliantine. Since that time, he's been busy stockpiling even more of his trademark brilliant, but catchy tunes while touring and collaborating with artists such as Lloyd Cole and Jill Sobule.

Even Further Behind is the Badman debut release from Dave Derby, and as the first album released under his name, it encompasses Dave's various musical personas into one glorious pop explosion. Produced by Michael Kotch,, Thom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Beachwood Sparks), and Derby himself, Even Further Behind features performances by Lloyd Cole, Vitamin C, Phoebe Summersquash (Small Factory, Godrays), and many others. As an album, there's a cohesive thread of pop sentimentality and dynamic instrumentation underlying each song. However, from song to song, the tone and tune vacillate between somber melancholia to 80's new-wave urgency, and back again to straight-ahead pop dementia.

Dreamy rock or down pop, whatever you call it, it's music for your every moodswing.