Odds were born out of the 1987 Vancouver music scene and made their mark with the Zoo/BMG album "Neopolitan" in 1991. Warren Zevon ended up with a copy and recognized a kindred spirit - taking Odds on the road as his opening act and backing band. Black humourists, Stax fans and power-pop purveyors, Odds released three more critically-acclaimed albums Bedbugs, Good Weird Feeling and Nest before taking a hiatus.

Their albums had broken through and achieved platinum status in their native Canada, along with 6 JUNO nominations, several top 10s, and a few top 40 hits in the USA and around the world. Songs you may recognize include: "It Falls Apart", "Eat My Brain", “Make You Mad”, “”Nothing Beautiful”, “Heterosexual Man" and "Someone Who's Cool" and the theme song to Canada’s most successful comedy series Corner Gas -“Not A Lot Going On”. The band returned in 2008 with Cheerleader, featuring the single “My Happy Place” (Corner Gas outro). The band was named the Vancouver Canucks 'house band' of the 2010 and 2011 NHL playoffs and at Canada Hockey House during the 2010 Olympics. Odds performed the theme music to the CBC/IFC television series The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town.

Three EP’s of new Odds music were released in 2013-14 and later collated as their next album “Universal Remote”. In 2023 Odds reached a high water mark with their newest album “Crash the Time Machine”.