May 8, 2008
Great Outdoors launches spring
By Adrian Mack
It took a little longer than expected, but the Great Outdoors is here to remind you that spring has finally arrived. The local folk-pop collective has just released the first in a series of seasonally inspired EPs entitled, not surprisingly, Spring. Appropriately enough for Vancouverites, who have just endured the coldest April since 1972, according to Environment Canada, Spring was delayed by a few weeks. Frontman
Adam Nation told the Straight, “It’s a little bit late. Not the way I planned it, but we had a hard time getting the records finished. I was waiting on the manufacturing.”
The Great Outdoors is noted for its elegant and imaginative packaging. Last year’s Food, Booze, and Entertainment album was slotted into a hardcover book that came complete with a library card. Spring comes in a heavy cardboard sleeve, handcrafted by Nation and his bandmates, which accounts for at least some of the delay. All three tracks on the EP can be sampled at www.myspace.com/thegreatoutdoorsddg, while Nation reports that the band is “a lot closer to being on track” for the release of the second EP, Summer, on June 30. Hopefully, so is summer.
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