Olympic Year were a band from San Jose, active in the early 2000s, possibly from 2001, when their website came online, to 2005, which is the last year it was updated. I don't have much more information than that, their name makes them difficult to search and their website archives are incomplete. Their sound was a combination of indie rock and emo pop, sometimes leaning more towards one than the other, depending on the song. I think they sometimes sound like a more indie rock-focused version of Filmmaker.
Between their formation and 2003 the band had a single or demo called Binary with two songs on it, one of which was rerecorded for the LP. In 2003 they released their first album, Smile. That rerecorded track, "Turn Around," is the best song on the album, so they made the right call in carrying it forward (I'm calling it rerecorded, but that's an assumption—it could be the original version from Binary). In 2004 the band put out an EP, What Makes A Home, and called it quits sometime in the following year.
The What Makes A Home EP is made available courtesy of Cornelius Smithington.
