About

Pale People is a rock band formed in Missoula, MT in 2015.  It consists of Mack Gilcrest (keyboards, vocals), Kurt Skrivseth (bass, guitar), Saje Johns (guitar), and Lexi Vine (drums, percussion). The band has released 5 full-length albums. 

They recorded their first album, Bright Ideas (2015), by sneaking into their university’s recording studio while it underwent renovation.  A demo of sorts, it included songs about Frankenstein, porn, and the NSA.  Their second album, Portraits (2016), is a collection of character studies: a racist preacher, a reality-TV child star, a Tetris prodigy, &c. 

They recorded The World is Yours (2017), expanding their instrumentation and taking on such song topics as superheroes, sexual trauma, and the colonization of Mars. Their fourth album, Absent Friends (2018), features an orchestra of 15 guest musicians, filling out the dense and lush arrangements of songs about arsonists, the Titanic, and the joys of playing D&D in solitary confinement. 

Amidst lineup changes Gilcrest and Skrivseth recorded Lizard Monster Eats Everybody (2020), mostly as a two-piece. The album is a bombastic rock opera about navigating the apocalypse. Expanding to a four-piece with guitarist Saje Johns and percussionist Lexi Vine, the band continues to experiment, write, and record in Missoula, MT.