With a handful of EPs to its name, Said the Whale made good on much of the promise it has generated touring heavily over the last year and a half with Islands Disappear. The band’s first full-length album, Islands Disappear charts some of those cross-Canadian travels with songs like "Dear Elkhorn" and "Emerald Lake, AB," evocative tunes that capture the playful side of a hard-working band. Said the Whale has crafted an album that is folksy and poppy, alternating as the band turns its gaze from Canada to its hometown of Vancouver in songs like "False Creek Change" and "Black Day In December," chronicling the destruction left by a recent winter storm. New addition Jaycelyn Brown transforms "Camilo (The Magician)" into an unusually raucous rocker reminiscent of early Thrush Hermit.
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