Bassist Nat Baldwin began his career focusing on improvisation and extended technique playing. He kept a foot in the improvising community as he branched out to work with more pop and indie groups. Baldwin's long list of collaborators included Tiger Saw, Vampire Weekend, Department of Eagles, and eventually full-time membership in Dirty Projectors. His solo albums often found him somewhere between these two worlds. Notable entries in Baldwin's discography of solo work included 2005's Lights Out, 2006's Enter the Winter, 2007's Most Valuable Player, and 2011's People Changes. In 2013 he released an album of demos, Dome Branches: The MVP Demos, and followed in 2014 with the spare string arrangements of In the Hollows. ~ Fred Thomas