Starling is a four-piece Alternative Rock band born and based in Los Angeles, CA, creating music that moves between Grunge, singer/songwriter, and Shoegaze. Their music tends to express “a general yearning for contentment, a person, a place.” Their single and video for “I Can Be Convinced” is out now. It hails from their new EP, Forgive Me.

Lead singer and guitarist Kasha Souter Willett started the project in 2023 and in May 2024, Starling officially formed with three more integral members, including Erik Sathrum Johnson, Grace Rolek and Gitai Vinshtok. Their first EP, 2324, was released in September 2024. 

Their new EP, Forgive Me, was written over the course of about a year, mixed by drummer Erik Sathrum Johnson, with artwork that was shot by the band and their friends, and then mastered by Greg Obis (MJ Lenderman, Wishy, Duster).  

The lead single, “I Can Be Convinced,” is “a sad and yearning song, with a need to be still”. The band notes that, ironically, it’s one of the most upbeat songs on the EP.

With Forgive Me, Starling has crafted a personal and fully DIY EP, “shaping every sonic detail themselves.”