Sara Lapsley was once in a riot grrl band. At some point, it apparently stopped being cool to be in a riot grrl band, and so its participants left for greener pastures. Corin Tucker continued to wail convincingly with Sleater-Kinney; Kathleen Hanna took up Casios and became Julie Ruin. Lapsley found the piano and started making pop music.

It would’ve been interesting to hear Lapsley’s previous band, Kreviss, because on the basis of Vancover Nights’ sole album and her vocal duties with local supergroup the Gay, you’d never believe her previous life in a tremedously noisy punk band. There are no screeching guitars here, just some saccharine, upbeat piano pop, backed by the likes of Dan Bejar and Carl Newman of the New Pornographers. The pleasures of Vancouver Nights are but simple ones, but pleasures all the same.