Said The Whale

A Juno Award-winning indie rock ensemble from Vancouver, Said the Whale specialize in melodic twists and turns peppered with quirky yet bittersweet musings that reflect a climate prone to overcast days. Led by dual songwriters/vocalists Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft, the band emerged in 2007 with a pair of well-received EPs, employing a quirky folk-pop sound that evoked contemporaries like Arkells and Wintersleep.

Said the Whale's first album, Taking Abalonia, was released in 2007. The critically acclaimed Islands Disappear arrived in 2009, and in 2011 Said the Whale took home the prize for New Group of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards. Down to the trio of Worcester, Bancroft, and Brown, they returned in the spring of 2017 with their fifth long-player, As Long as Your Eyes Are Wide, and saw the band ditching the acoustic instrumentation of prior outings in favour of a more voltaic approach. 2019's Arts & Crafts-issued Cascadia marked a return to the heartfelt and homespun indie-folk sound of the group's debut.