Sci-Fi Romance plays folk music. When we’re loud, we’re good and damn loud. When we’re quiet, we’re trying to break your heart.
Sci-Fi Romance | Alt-Folk
A series of singles, both of original songs and new spins on folk standards, gives way to our ambitious October Second EP, a second project inspired by horror movies.
Our collection of performances created during the various lockdowns of 2020, From the Plague Year, is available here. It follows our EP from Spring 2020 The Rain Becomes a River, which was a fully-produced affair that went out into the world just as the world was changing drastically.
Our last studio album, Dreamers & Runaways, is available here in digital, vinyl, and CD. When you order the record via bandcamp, you also get a digital booklet and digital copy of the comic created for the “Voices” music video. iTunes
Based in Los Angeles, the band is singer-songwriter Vance Kotrla, as well as a group of collaborators including Jody Stark (cello), Mr. Mike (drums, art), Ella Kristin Vogel (vocals), Johnnie Kotrla (bass), Kevin Karr (bass), Dylan Kotrla (piano), Kurt Bloom (drums), and other wonderful people. The band’s debut album, …and surrender my body to the flames, was released in 2010, and followed up in 2012 by the concept album The Ghost of John Henry, and 2016’s highly praised Dust Among the Stars and 2018’s Dreamers & Runaways. They have also released three-ish EPs, October, based on classic horror movies and recorded on an old analogue cassette machine, a collection of singles and b-sides, A Burning Ember to a Grove of Trees, The Rain Becomes a River, and the COVID-19 lockdown collection From the Plague Year. Check out all the releases here.