Anders Parker may not be a platinum-selling musician, but that doesn't bother him.

"My goal is not to be on MTV. I just love to be able to do the things I want to do," Parker said.

On Sunday, Parker will bring his insouciance and unique style of music with the rest of his band, Varnaline, to Zeno's, 100 W. College Ave. The fee at the door is $5 and the show will start at 10 p.m.

Varnaline, however, is merely a professional moniker for what is solely Parker's work. On his most recent release, Songs in a Northern Key, Parker wrote and recorded the record predominantly by himself at various remote locations in New York City and Vermont.

Though he has been most recently concerned with his solo work, Parker was not always a one-man band. In 1997, he and his brother, John, joined up with Jud Ehrbar to form the indie rock collective Space Needle. After the release of three albums, the band's record label dissolved and left the band without anywhere to go.

It was then that Parker began to focus more passionately on his solo work, which has come to hone a sound completely independent of that of Space Needle.

Driven along with a gritty rock sound, the new Varnaline record is packed with quick-paced rock gone messy and gracefully awkward ballad-esque hymns. Parker's soft, shaky voice carries the listeners across a delicate ice pond of lush instrumentation and heartfelt lyrics.

Though some of the songs on the album were fashioned more easily than others, Parker says Songs is good representation of what he wants to accomplish with his music.

"This record is a cross-section of what I like to do," Parker said. "I tend to bounce all over the map when I write."

The tour, which takes Varnaline across the East Coast for two and a half weeks, is the first excursion Parker has made with an entire band. This past winter, Parker toured alone, playing acoustic shows for three months. This latest series of shows allows Parker to perform songs from the new CD in a more complete sense.

After this tour, Parker will return to playing acoustic shows followed by more band shows, and then hopes to be back in the studio recording by the summer. Though this may seem like an extraordinary feat to accomplish, Parker is confident that everything will pan out as he plans.

"When I start something, I like to finish it," Parker said.