100 Bands in 100 Days Presented by Verity Credit Union — Day 66: Wyatt Olney & The Wreckage

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 musical offering is a band called Wyatt Olney and the Wreckage that calls Seattle home. 

Wyatt Olney & The Wreckage is a local band that has been making a lot of waves over the last year or so.  We reviewed his latest album Dark Futures earlier this year and had this to say:

Anthemic, angsty, rocking, ballad-like; these songs are beyond simple in concept and topic and yet so accessible, they beg you to sing along. The best songs are always those that seem so obvious and humble and yet impossibly layered, which takes a great deal of skill. Credit for that goes to producer Don Gunn (Death Cab for Cutie, The Lonely Forest) and Ed Brooks (Pearl Jam), who mastered the disc.

Wyatt Olney & The Wreckage is a 4-piece hard rock band from the Greater Seattle Area. Comprised of frontman Wyatt Olney on lead vocals and guitar, Lead Guitarist Kyle Gibboney, Willie Nelson on the bass and Rob Brennan on the drums, the quartet made a big splash in the Pacific Northwest in 2015. Combining the energy of a hardcore show and acoustic guitar lines reminiscent of an 80’s hair-band ballad, the band has set themselves apart in the Seattle underground scene.

Totally organic and engaging, Kyle Gibboney (lead guitar), Rob Brennan (drums), and Willie Nelson (bass and backing vocals) are the pegs in this stool on which sits the Olney as king with this first full-length album.

The group released their debut full-length album Dark Futures worldwide on June 3rd, 2016 on Fuzzy Rump Records. The group will be gigging through the fall months before hitting the studio for a follow-up next winter.

Olney’s vocals are well-defined, with lyrics that feed into the composition and energy that is more than the sum of its parts. Growling, soaring, pleading, riding the crest of the music, Olney’s voice tells the story plainly.

If you are looking for a new local band to like or love, check out this killer group of musicians.

(You can check out Wyatt Olney & The Wreckage on Facebook and you can listen to them at Reverbnation and watch their official video for ‘”Save Me” below) 

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.