David Wimbish & The Collection

David Wimbish & The Collection: David Wimbish wasn’t sure he had it in him to make another record. In the span of a year, the folk-pop/rock singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist went through a breakup, moved from Saxapahaw to Asheville, entered a new relationship and became a father, all while Hurricane Helene devastated his community. Friends went missing. There was no clean water for months. At the same time, his longtime band was falling apart. But through the exhaustion and uncertainty, David found his way back to music — and back to himself. Now based in Richmond, Virginia, David returns with Heavy Love, the warm, bracingly honest new album from David Wimbish & The Collection. Written and recorded largely in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the album marks David’s first project created almost entirely on his own, with him writing, producing, and recording the record from a studio he built in his parents’ North Carolina home. Growing up surrounded by music in North Carolina, David launched The Collection in college and has since built a devoted following through anthemic, heart-on-sleeve albums driven by stomp-and-holler energy, earnest songwriting, and deeply human storytelling. On Heavy Love, he explores aging, heartbreak, dissolved friendships, natural disasters, nonconformity, love as action, and existential uncertainty with immersive vulnerability and renewed clarity. After four albums, and countless shows with his band The Collection, David Wimbish returns to his origins with the onset of his new incarnation as a solo artist, David Wimbish & The Collection. The singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist’s first demonstration of this new direction will be his self-titled LP (Nettwerk), featuring new music and alternate versions of fan favorite tracks from previous albums. “When my career began, the name of the project was David Wimbish & The Collection,” he says, “but over the following years, what was originally a solo project became a band. The relationships were close, both emotionally and musically, and they remain that way. But after 10 years of playing as a band, life decided it was time for that chapter to end. I’ve loved making and performing music with my friends. There have been so many beautiful moments we’ve shared, and I am incredibly grateful to my bandmates, and our fans, for all of it. But there’s a new life to this next chapter. I’m getting back to a more organic sonic footprint that’s more focused on serving the song. I returned to writing in a way that I hadn’t in a long time and stepping into a very honest space.” In pursuing this return to his roots, Wimbish found the perfect cohort to bring this new vision to life in producer Marshall Altman [Matt Nathanson, Trevor Hall]. For th e first time in his recording career David cut songs entirely live in the studio, which birthed raw, emotion-driven performances that elevated the songs to match the depth of their subject matter"