the JUNO Award for New Group Of The Year at the 2006 JUNOS in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2007, they released the album Street Gospels. The band released the EP Where Have All The Songs Played Gone To in 2009, before the full-length album Light the Horizon in September 2011. Solo Work On February 16, 2010, Malinowski released his first solo album, Bright Lights & Bruises. The record was said to be like a diary for him. Steve Bays and Paul Hawley of Hot Hot Heat provided backing instrumentation for the record. He toured in support of this album with Michael Rault and Kinnie Starr as opening acts. Armistice Malinowski recorded a five-song EP with Cœur de pirate and The Bronx at The Bronx's studio in Van Nuys, California under the band name Armistice. The EP was released February 15, 2011 and contains the single "Mission Bells". Jay Malinowski & The Deadcoast After moving back to Vancouver in April 2012, Malinowski started collaborating with local string trio, The End Tree. The End Tree joined Malinowski, eventually becoming known as The Deadcoast in recordings and on stage. In July, 2012, it was announced that Malinowski would perform alongside Chuck Ragan, Cory Branan, Emily Barker, and Rocky Votolato for the European leg of the 2012 Revival Tour. In November 2012, Jay Malinowski & The Deadcoast released a five-song EP, Indian Summer, to coincide with their tour in Europe as part of the Revival Tour. On February 11, 2014, they released an eighteen-song full-length album, entitled Martel. Malinowski explains that the concept behind the album was loosely based on a distant French Huguenot relative of his, Charles Martel. The album is divided into two distinctive parts, the Pacific and the Atlantic. The first single, "Patience Phipps", was based on a name that Malinowski found in his family tree. Writing In 2014, Malinowski inked an e-book publishing deal with HarperCollins for his book "Skulls & Bones: 14 Letters from a Sailor at the End of the World. An illustrated novella, the book follows the travels of the sailor "Martel" through a series of letters written to his granddaughter, whom he lost contact with long ago. Telling of their ancestral past, his life at sea, and the choices upon which their lives have been built, Martel's letters illuminate the power of stories passed down through generations—stories that changed over time, and that ruptured their family