The music, video and art above are from Resurrection, Stella Luce’s third release The album features the debut of Sean Speer on percussion with Stella Luce. Brett Schreiber, who founded the band with Alana Rolfe (viola, vocals) expanded his original role as bass player with vocals, guitar, synths, electronic percussion and loops for the new music. Thank you to the artists who blessed this work with their talent: Jayme DeLoss, Tara Mason, Brandton Manshel, Rachel Herrera, Page Sanderson, Susana Dominguez, Will Schlatmann, Austin Barker, Darren Mahuron, Greth Ligon, and Tomas Herrera.
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Entropy - 2011
Entropy features Alana Rolfe (viola, vocals), Brett Schreiber (bass, vocals) and Adam Pitner (drums). "Moody and complex, deranged and epic; Stella Luce’s Entropy resembles the score to a Postmodern burlesque tragedy. The series of six anthems churns between mellow and dirge-like to passionate and calamitous. The quiet points swim in a symphonic grace, creating contrast to the somewhat grotesque..." Scene Magazine review by Devin Morse |
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Zugunruhe - 2009
Zugunruhe features Alana Rolfe (viola, vocals), Brett Schreiber (bass, vocals), Erin Mcgraw, Kira Sands and Mike Sinclair. "Take Una Volta-era DeVotchKa, subtractNick Urata's Morrissey croon and replace it with the sometimes-Ani-DiFranco, sometimes-Sarah-Vaughan vocals of Alana Rolfe, add a little more flair for weird noises, and you might get something that sounds like this Fort Collins-based act. The band's violin-based pop bears a broad range of influences, from lounge to Eastern Bloc to indie shoegaze. Eclectic yet satisfyingly consistent,Zugenruhe, Stella Luce's debut long-player, is well-rooted and hook-based. Some moments work better than others (the album's first track, "Prelude," for instance, sounds like a horror-movie soundtrack and gets grating after about the first thirty seconds), while the smoldering seduction of songs like "Esteban's Fishing Song" and the soaring builds of "Beltbomb Machine" make the album worth repeated listens." -Jeff Otte, Denver Westword |