Young Flyers EP - OAK001
Recorded over two sweaty weekends in May 2005, the Young Flyers EP bristles with the energy of a young band coming into focus. Leadoff track "Hell Is A Vinyl Decision" builds a rolling piano jam from guitar and voice. YVR turned out unexpectedly as on of The Shine On's catchiest songs. The Young Flyers EP was a deceptively simple ode modern life and classic songwriting.
Reviews
In a world of wishy-washy, allegedly talented singer-songwriters choking the countries play-lists, The Shine On's debut is a welcome gasp of authentic bar-room air.
Scott McCord, 100.3 The Bear
release date: October 1, 2005
Hide And Seek Champion - OAK002
If you could distill melancholy would you drink its liquor? Way To Go Einstein would. They'd take two rounds infact. Then they'd play swirling lush guitars all over your face. There would be keyboards and a steady pulsing piano too. Gentle and brutal. Kind and vicious. All....coming up ......to a climax .......and then...........
Reviews
Don't let the silly name fool you: Way to Go, Einstein isn't a goof-pop combo striving to be the next Barenaked Ladies. Instead, the Vancouver band has grander musical ambitions that seem to be equal parts Coldplay and Sigur RÓs. Singer Andrew Carter's delivery is often tremulous and unpolished, but his melodies soar to the heavens, and are backed by lush beds of reverb-treated guitars and synthesizers. It's a gorgeous sound, and if it lacks a little in the hooks department, so what? Something tells me that the members of Way to Go, Einstein would rather be some lonely soul's late-night-headphones favourite than a top-40 act anyway. Now, if they could only do something about that name before someone books them as the support act on a Moxy Früvous reunion tour.
John Lucas, The Georgia Straight
release date: June 1, 2007
Box Hymns - OAK003
Sometimes it takes more than force to keep the dream alive. Box Hymns begins and ends with a dream of something strange and beguiling. These are songs of wonder and fear, of tenderness and anger. Geoff Nilson's descriptive lyrics tell the stories of broken and rebuilt characters still haunted by demons yet unafraid to march forward into the future. Never one to sit on a good thing, the band explores new and chaotic territory with key songs like "For You, In A Knit Hood" and "Scavenger Hunt", all the while keeping energy and emotion at the forefront. The final release from The Shine On, Box Hymns.
release date: April 29, 2008