100 Bands in 100 Days Presented by Verity Credit Union — Day 42: Stella Crest
Music fans of the Pacific Northwest, hello and welcome back to our third annual year-end daily countdown, 100 Bands in 100 Days, where every day until December 31st, we’re showcasing a new band or artist you have to know about, presented by Verity Credit Union. Follow the #100Bands100Days hashtag on Twitter to stay on top of all the bands featured and make sure to follow Verity on Twitter as well. Some days the featured act could be an established and locally-adored northwest-based musician that perhaps you haven’t been turned onto yet, and other times they could be a band with a small following that just hasn’t had their deserved time in the sun yet. Either way, we’re fairly confident you can come away from this daily segment with plenty of new favorites. Today’s offering is a fairly new Seattle band with a great sound and they are called Stella Crest.
Stella Crest may be a newer face on the burgeoning Seattle indie rock scene but they have sound of a band that has been at this a while. The band released their self-titled debut back in August and it is the culmination of years spent writing music, touring, and migrating from a California youth to adulthood in the Pacific Northwest. Conceived by singer/guitarist Evan Ferro (Bright Light Fever, Roman Funerals, By Sunlight), Stella Crest’s music reflects the influence of family, loss, and perpetual transition.
Stella Crest is also a collaboration among friends, as Ferro recruited musicians he’s known for more than a decade. With drummer Vinny LaRiza (Roman Funerals, The Provisionals, Oceanography), bassist Jack Clemens (By Sunlight, Noonmoon, BAIXA), and keyboardist Mike Sparks (By Sunlight, Noonmoon, Mister Metaphor), he formed a band that’s confident in its abilities and comfortable in its skin.
Stella Crest’s songs build on Ferro’s distinctive guitar parts and expand outward with glistening harmonies, soaring vocals, and hooky rhythms. Artfully combining elegance, grit, musicianship, and personal narrative, these are rock songs that look for light in the darkness. The band is another great example of an outfit that is thankfully shattering the too often preconceived notion as to what the Seattle or northwest sound is.
You can check out Stella Crest on Facebook or you can also stream their debut album below and purchase it at Bandcamp.
Submissions for 100 Bands in 100 Days are still open to any Pacific Northwest band interested in submission. If you would like to have your band submitted for a chance to be featured in this segment, consult this link for more information on how you can do so.
