Let's imagine a band comprised of steaming momentum that has been abruptly decompressed and cooled in a folk-rock mold. Its members cut their teeth in art punk and prog-rock outfits, all wound up energy and attitude, when suddenly, in 2007, they came together in a kinder, gentler recording project. This project would develop into the Cave Singers. Later in 2007, they would sign to Matador Records.

Speaking with Marty Lund, drummer for the Cave Singers, this transition doesn't come off nearly as abrupt as one might picture it. Coming out of Cobra High, a Seattle math-rock band, Lund happened to be living nearby Derek Fudesco (formerly of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Murder City Devils) and Pete Quirk (of Hint Hint) when they started casually collaborating.

Read what happened next here.

the Cave Singers

with Whalebones, Case Studies, Friday, Feb. 11, 9 p.m., $12
The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25th St, Tacoma, 253.572.4020

with Whalebones, Takhoma, Saturday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. all-ages, $8
Northern, 321 Fourth Ave., Olympia, northernolympia.org