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'Is the world ready for yet another post-rock band? The answer is yes! "Paper Canyon" overflows with gaping gorges of pretty passages prone to gathering momentum before enveloping unsuspecting ears whole... A debut record of real maturity!' The Best New Music - ROCK SOUND (UK) - June 2009 issue. - ROCK SOUND Magazine (UK)
‘With a debut record produced by ex-yourcodenameis:milo man Justin Lockey ready to go in early 09, via Erased Tapes, this Kent-based quintet find themselves on the cusp of what looks to be a very promising career.’ - ROCK SOUND Magazine (UK)
‘Das Londoner Label Erased Tapes, dessen Gründer ein junger Deutscher namens Robert Raths ist, hat die Musiklandschaft schon mit den Newcomern Kyte und Ólafur Arnalds bereichert. Mit Codes In The Clouds steht die nächste Band schon in den Startloechern!’ - VISIONS (DE)
'Possibly the most gripping piece of music you'll hear this year!' (8/10)
FULL REVIEW:
Codes In The Clouds:
Distant Street Lights / Fractures
by Dom Gourlay
Instrumental rock needn't always be about sticking to the same converse structure, although sadly what should have been a brave new beginning for expression without words has gradually become a uniform – anyone with a spare copy of Young Team or Agaetis Byrjun and a satchel full of effects pedals can form their own post-rock band. Well it's easy, innit? All you need are intermittent time signatures and occasional spats of silence and the rest is an exercise in repetition, right? Wrong...
Dartford five-piece Codes In The Clouds are a different proposition entirely. While there is no mistaking the fact that at least one member of the band probably owns an Explosions In The Sky record, they also seem to have studied the complex musical palettes of Ennio Morricone and John Barry, as 'Distant Street Lights' isn't merely about lolloping guitars over a formulaic backing, but more importantly screams the word ‘Ambition!’ with every subtly-crafted chord.
While they will undoubtedly find themselves pigeonholed in with the post-rock set, don't let that put you off, as CITC owe more to the panoramic views of people like Epic45 or Yann Tiersen, albeit from a more youthful angle.
For example, b-side 'Fractures' is possibly the most gripping piece of music you'll hear this year, almost like the final chapter from a Jack Arnott novel. For a band still in their infancy, that is no mean compliment.
8/10
August 28th, 2007
Artists:Codes In The Clouds
Label:Erased Tapes
- DROWNED IN SOUND (UK)
'At times crestfallen and regretful, at others furious and passionate, this album is a synergy between exceptional percussion and dizzying whirlpools of guitar riffs.' (4/5)
FULL REVIEW:
Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon
Sometimes, linguistics can reveal much about post-rock. Where instrumental music once held cumbersome titles like Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, post-rock tracks can invoke meaning with vocabulary. Codes In The Clouds’ debut Paper Canyon reveals a remote familiarity of disjunctive feelings, with recording titles containing words like ‘fractures’, ‘digital’, ‘hope’ and ‘distance’.
Paper Canyon is as fragile as its titles suggest, beginning with the drone of Fractures stirring up guitar scales and smooth tones that culminate in a pinnacle of distortion. What makes this band different from other post-rock outfits is the huge variety of drumbeats in the songs that build up the tension. The marching snare drum triumphantly pounds throughout Distant Street-Lights and then gives way to sustained guitar riffs that take the lead. However sometimes tracks go on longer than their development allows, which can be a little repetitive.
The standout track is Don’t Go Awash In This Digital Landscape, which begins with a haunting choir and Moby-esque piano flutters, drifting fluently into climactic pulses of sound. At times crestfallen and regretful, at others furious and passionate, this album is a synergy between exceptional percussion and dizzying whirlpools of guitar riffs.
4/5
Words: Niamh Madden
Released: 18.05.09 - NARC (UK)
Discography
Album 2 (late 2010) - 2nd full length album
Paper Canyon Recycled (late 2010) - remix album
Paper Canyon (2009) - debut album
Fractures/Distant Street Lights (2007) - Double A-side Single
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GERMAN Press release:
CODES IN THE CLOUDS - Cinematische Post-Rock Pop Musik aus England.
‘Das Londoner Label Erased Tapes, dessen Gründer ein junger Deutscher namens Robert Raths ist, hat die Musiklandschaft schon mit den Newcomern Kyte und Ólafur Arnalds bereichert. Mit Codes In The Clouds steht die nächste Band schon in den Startloechern!’ – VISIONS (DE)
Das Instrumental-Quintett Codes In The Clouds hat sich in Englands wachsender Post Rock-Szene etabliert. Ihre 2007 erschienene Debütsingle „Distant Street Lights / Fractures“ wurde wiederholt von Huw Stephens auf BBC Radio 1 gespielt und stieß auf durchweg positive Reaktionen sowohl bei der Presse als auch bei ihrer wachsenden Fan-Gemeinde. Nachdem sie sich als Live-Band einen Namen gemacht haben, begleiteten sie 2008 ihre texanischen Post-Rock Kameraden This Will Destroy You auf einigen Konzerten in Deutschland und Großbritannien.
Am 4. September 2009 erwartet uns ihr erster Longplayer “Paper Canyon” auf Erased Tapes Records, produziert von The British Expeditionary Force-Kopf Justin Lockey (Yourcodenameis:Milo), der bereits für Bands wie Bloc Party und Enter Shikari arbeitete.
Wer sich eingängige Musik ohne Gesang nicht vorstellen kann, wird überrascht sein wie schnell Codes In The Clouds ihn dies vergessen lassen. Sorgfältig geflochtene Gitarrenmelodien finden ihren Höhepunkt in wütendem Schlagzeuggewitter. Energetisch und zugleich bezaubernd, stets überraschend und unvorhersehbar.
Rock Sound, Englands führendes Magazin für Rockmusik, sagt mit dem kommenden Album für Codes In The Clouds eine viel versprechende Zukunft voraus. Auch in den USA blieb die Geburt dieser Formation nicht unbemerkt. Das Post-Rock Online Portal The Silent Ballet zu CITC:
„Uns gehen die Entschuldigungen für eher lustlose Veröffentlichungen von Mono, Explosions In The Sky oder Do May Say Think aus. Sie müssten es eigentlich besser wissen, wenn sie nicht schon so sehr in ihre eigene Musik eingehüllt wären. Codes In The Clouds wissen es besser!“
Mit dem brandneuen Album im Gepäck darf man die Band im Oktober 2009 dann endlich wieder in deutschen Gefilden willkommen heißen:
29.10.2009 A - Wien, Rhiz
30.10.2009 A - Innsbruck, PMK
31.10.2009 D - Oberhausen, Drucklufthaus
01.11.2009 D - Siegen, Vortex
02.11.2009 D - Berlin, Dot Club
03.11.2009 D - Chemnitz, Subway to Peter
04.11.2009 D - Dresden, Beatpol
05.11.2009 D - Leipzig, Conne Island
06.11.2009 CH - Chur, Werkstatt
Vorerst werden sie im April das neue Material auf Englandtour mit Jeniferever testen. Ein erster Videotrailer ist ebenfalls zu erwarten, welcher im Dezember 2008 unter der Regie des kalifornischen Filmemachers Mike Hedge (Burning Man - As The Dust Settles) gedreht wurde.
REZENSIONEN:
'Is the world ready for yet another post-rock band? The answer is yes! "Paper Canyon" overflows with gaping gorges of pretty passages prone to gathering momentum before enveloping unsuspecting ears whole... A debut record of real maturity!' Best New Music – Rock Sound Magazine (UK)
‘With a debut record produced by ex-yourcodenameis:milo man Justin Lockey ready to go in early 09, via Erased Tapes, this Kent-based quintet find themselves on the cusp of what looks to be a very promising career.’ Ones to watch in 2009
– Rock Sound Magazine (UK)
‘Distant Street Lights screams the word 'Ambition!' with every subtly-crafted chord. Fractures is possibly the most gripping piece of music you'll hear this year!' (8/10) Single of the Week – Drowned In Sound (UK)
‘With their blissful brand of post-rock, this quintet will warm many a jaded soul.' The Best New Music – Rock Sound Magazine (UK)
'Upon hearing Distant Street Lights I was drawn in like the proverbial moth to the flame, while Fractures fuelled my appetite for more, it’s an album we really want.' Rising Stars – The Silent Ballet (US)
'At times crestfallen and regretful, at others furious and passionate, this album is a synergy between exceptional percussion and dizzying whirlpools of guitar riffs.' (4/5) – NARC (UK)
'Their music brings the sonic deluge associated with their genre, kidney-punching you with crescendos that leave you in surgery, coupled with the fragile stitching of clean guitar lines that help you recuperate. Codes does show they are capable of more surprising melody-making, particularly in the star-charting patience of "The Distance Between Us"' 1 Track Of The Week – The Silent Ballet (US)
'Even though it's probably our ignorance, we've yet to find a strong British act that rivals some of the better foreign post rock artists. Guess what? We think we've found one.' - Heckler Spray (UK)
Hörproben vom Album gibt’s hier: http://myspace.com/codesintheclouds
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ENGLISH Press release:
CODES IN THE CLOUDS (UK) - Cinematic post-rock pop.
Instrumental rock music is experiencing a new peak in England. Codes In The Clouds, the
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