Jack Stratton, Woody Goss, Theo Katzman and Joe Dart were each prodigious musicians in their own right when they arrived in Ann Arbor within a span of five years of one another as students at the University of Michigan. Their subsequent formation of Vulfpeck in 2011 was a culmination of a series of coincidences, but the funk rhythm section’s synergy is no accident.

Since the band’s inception, Vulfpeck has independently released five six-track albums — with its first full-length feature due to be released at the end of the summer — and built a relatively small, but equally insatiable fan base in all corners of the world.