Offseason

02/17/2024

14 track album

09/06/2023

Doing something special on Oct 3 for the Vancouver release event for the debut Applied Silence album. Come listen to Screen Door in Lobe Studio’s acoustically wonderful spatial audio space, as part of Lobe’s Storytelling Series, a few days before it goes public!

Lobe Storytelling Series | Screen Door Album Release by Applied Silence Join us at Lobe for Screen Door, debut album release by Applied Silence. Chronicling two idiosyncratic ghost stories in tandem, the debut LP from Applied Silence is a dazzlingly original, tonally dynamic merg

09/01/2023

Applied Silence - Screen Door available for preorder and sneak ear-peek now! Check out the fine trailer below and jump on the Bandcamp link at https://appliedsilence.bandcamp.com/album/screen-door

08/24/2023

03/31/2023

On this day in 2017, the debut (and only) French for Sled Dogs album was released through gentle surprise in the role of fanfare. Listen on Bandcamp if you’re in a frame of mind compatible with things that are noisy, mathy, splattery, or post-rock-y.

6 track album

09/20/2022

Hello folks! The debut (and, to date, only) Cloudsplitter album was released Sept 20, 2011. The band recorded a few more songs than what was released from that session, including this version of Depeche Mode's Behind the Wheel, which we present here in equal tribute to DM and in celebration of the 11-year anniversary of the self-titled debut. Hope you enjoy this song and can find some time to revisit the full Cloudsplitter album on this irregular anniversary!

track by Cloudsplitter

09/13/2022

In time for Autumn beginning to roll in, here's a meditative stop-motion animation by Amanda Cassidy (visuals) and Stephen Lyons (music) that is wordlessly about tempests that overwhelm, but pass.

[[[Works better on a larger screen, and with a bit of devoted time (9ish minutes) if you want to align yourself with the overall pacing and feel of the thing!]]]

A stop-frame animation about solitude & calm, and of tempests that overwhelm, but pass.Animation by Amanda Cassidy, music by Stephen Lyons.© 2021offseasonrec...

06/08/2022

Coming up June 29th. Brand new trio Used Gowns (Acharia, Lyons, Schmidt) on a double-bill with The Nausea as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 5pm start at The Ironworks. Free!

Coastal Jazz Offseason

USED GOWNS Feral noise, fractured beats, and strange beauty. With an array of effects added to his big-picture bass-playing, Shanto Acharia has exploded his composition and improv approaches outwards in all directions. Eschewing polite accompaniment in favour of unapologetic, heavily absurdist co-oc...