Said the Whale’s “Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia” is officially in stores today. The CD Release party, for those of you in Vancouver or who feel like heading to Vancouver is this Thursday at the Biltmore, doors at 9. According to their MySpace blog they are reasonably happy with the album “We feel like little boys with new tricycles. This is TRES exciting. If you’re out shopping today, go buy it! It is, sadly, not on Zunior (I checked) so you’ll actually have to go out and find a copy cause iTunes sucks!