It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record. And I'm really excited about it.

DeYarmond Edison's core consisted of Vernon Brad and Phil Cook and Joe Westerlund. "


Personal life
In 2011 Vernon began a relationship with Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards. The band released two records themselves the first self-titled and the second titled Silent Signs and an EP of unreleased material is available on their Myspace page.