Said the Whale is a Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

-based indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band started by Ben Worcester and Tyler Bancroft.

Their debut EP Taking Abalonia was released in 2007. It was re-released with seven new songs on June 3, 2008 in Canada as a full-length LP under the name Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia

Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia

Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia is a re-release of Said the Whale's debut album Taking Abalonia along with seven new songs. The album was re-released on June 3, 2008 in Canada and soon after on iTunes....

. Their EPs Let's Have Sound and West Coast Christmas are available for download free of charge on their website.

On July 1, 2009, Said the Whale released the EP The Magician to drum up anticipation for the release of their second full length album Islands Disappear

Islands Disappear

Islands Disappear is Said the Whale's second full length album. It was released on October 13, 2009. Music videos for some of the songs have been made and are available on YouTube...

 on October 13, 2009.

On November 18, 2010, the band placed second behind rapper Kyprios

Kyprios

-Career:Formerly associated with the musical collective Sweatshop Union, he now records and performs exclusively as a solo artist. He appeared on all of Sweatshop Union's albums up to and including 2008's Water Street, as well as releasing two solo albums, Say Something in 2004 and 12:12 in...

 in CKPK-FM's 2010 Peak Performance Project, winning $75,000.

Said the Whale toured the U.S. for the first time in Spring of 2011. They played shows along the West Coast on their way to and from Austin's SXSW Music Festival.

Said the Whale won the Juno Award for New Group of the Year

Juno Award for New Group of the Year

The Juno Award for the New Group of the Year has been awarded since 1974, as recognition each year for the best new group or band in Canada. The award was originally known as Most Promising Group of the Year, and from 1994–2002 it was known as Best New Group.-Most Promising Group of the Year...

 at the 2011 Juno Awards

Juno Awards of 2011

The Juno Awards of 2011, honours Canadian music industry achievements in the latter part of 2009 and in most of 2010. The awards presented in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the weekend of 26 and 27 March 2011. A week of related events on 21 March 2011...

.

Said the Whale are the subject of the CBC documentary Winning America which aired on July 23, 2011, so far only in BC.

They released their EP New Brighton on November 8, 2011, in preparation for their third full-length album, set to be released in early 2012.

Members

• Ben Worcester – Guitar/vocals
• Tyler Bancroft – Guitar/vocals
• Nathan Shaw – Bass
• Spencer Schoening – Drums
• Jaycelyn Brown – Keyboards

Past members

• Jeff LaForge – Bass 2007-2008
• Colin Dodds – Keyboards 2008
• Laura Smith – Keyboards 2007
• Peter Carruthers- Bass 2009-2011

Albums

• Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia
  Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia
  Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia is a re-release of Said the Whale's debut album Taking Abalonia along with seven new songs. The album was re-released on June 3, 2008 in Canada and soon after on iTunes....
  
   (June 3, 2008)
• Islands Disappear
  Islands Disappear
  Islands Disappear is Said the Whale's second full length album. It was released on October 13, 2009. Music videos for some of the songs have been made and are available on YouTube...
  
   (October 13, 2009)
• Little Mountain
  Little Mountain
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   (March 6, 2012)

EPs

• Taking Abalonia (2007)
• Let's Have Sound (March 2007)
• West Coast Christmas (December 2007)
• West Coast Christmas 2008 (December 2008)
• The Magician (EP) (July 2009)
• West Coast Christmas 2009
  West Coast Christmas 2009
  The 2009 West Coast Christmas EP is an online EP released by Said the Whale in December 2009. It is their third consecutive Christmas EP album, after West Coast Christmas and West Coast Christmas 2008, and followed by Xmas EP in 2010....
  
   (December 2009)
• Bear Bones (February 2010)
• Xmas EP (December 2010)
• New Brighton (November 2011)

Singles

Year	Song	Chart peak	Album
		CAN Alt Canadian rock/alternative chart The Canadian rock/alternative chart was first published on June 11, 1995 by RPM magazine under the name Alternative 30. The song which held the number-one spot on this first chart was "More Human than Human" by White Zombie...
2011	"Heavy Ceiling"	24	Little Mountain
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.