They are genre-bending and a bit bent.  Legend holds that Lee traded the devil some blood for his chops.

The Harvest formed in June 2010 when Mark Stone, Darren Lee, and Jeremiah Johnson met the voice of Shauna Meloche at one of their Aurora Studios parties. A month later they decided to move into the same house to birth some beautiful music. Three months later they were playing original sets at downtown Vancouver venues such as The Railway Club, and hashing out their first songs in studio.

Their influences are wide and various, from the Ramones and Sublime, to Butch Walker, No Doubt and Motley Crue. You can hear hints of Bam Bam in Mark Stone’s percussive style, and some Flea in Jeremiah Johnson’s occasionally frenetic, boozy slap-bass. Meloche could be Janis Joplin and Gwen Stefani’s love child. And Lee can play you to the bone with his ’60 Fender Strat, like Stevie Ray Vaughn talking to Robert Johnson in guitar strings.

They are genre-bending and a bit bent. Stone might even say hell-bent. Legend holds that Lee traded the devil some blood for his chops. That’s steep for rock dues, but Lee would have it no other way, considering his love of early bayou blues, their collective love of genuine music, of anything brought with soul and spirit. They hold their music to the flames, preferring to call themselves not a style, not an easily ascribable genre, but a brand: this is what we bring, one minute some soul, some rock, the next some reggae funk, a little percussive glam—whatever we feel. We’re The Harvest . . . deal with it, and enjoy.

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