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Codes In The Clouds – Paper Canyon album

‘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 / Ones To Watch in 2009 – Rock Sound

Instrumental rock music is experiencing a new peak in England. Codes In The Clouds, the quintet of Morahan, Peeling, Smith, Major and Power from Dartford, Kent have found a firm place in this vast growing post-rock scene.

With their harmonious and blissful sound they weave guitar melodies, liable to explode any minute. If you still can’t imagine intense music without vocals then you will be surprised how easily these boys will let you forget this prejudice. Energetic and charming at once, surprising and unpredictable at all times.

After receiving critical acclaim on both domestic (repeated plays by legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens) and international stations for their first double A-side ‘Distant Street Lights / Fractures’, CITC are set to take the world by storm. With their recordings completed within only five days under the experienced eye of Justin Lockey (Bloc Party/ Yourcodenameis: Milo/Enter Shakari), and a promotional video captured by Californian filmmaker Mike Hedge (Burning Man – As the Dust Settles), their debut album release on Erased Tapes Records is all set to go.

Codes In The Clouds – Paper Canyon (video teaser) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.
In North America ‘Paper Canyon’ will see the light of day on September 15; in Germany on October 23. The band will also release a free download remix album entitled ‘Paper Canyon Recycled’ in the coming winter – with contributions from Paul Mullen (The Automatic), who has been a fan of the band since he saw them live in ’07, and other friends later this year.

Rock Sound, one of England’s leading magazines for rock music, counts Codes In The Clouds amongst the new discoveries of the past year and have hailed them as ‘Ones to Watch in 2009’. The birth of this formation didn’t remain unnoticed in the US for long either. Online zine The Silent Ballet crowned CITC the new rising stars of instrumental rock: ‘I’m running out of excuses to explain rather lackluster releases from recent powerhouses as Mono, Explosions In The Sky and Do Make Say Think. If they weren’t already wrapped up in their own music, they’d probably know better. Codes In The Clouds does.’

Having finished 2007 with a sold out label showcase at London’s Roundhouse; 2008 finished no less dramatically, with a string of sold out shows alongside Texan comrades This Will Destroy You on home soil, and true to form, 2009 will be no different starting with a headline UK/Ireland tour, support shows with 65daysofstatic, followed by a EU tour with pg.lost.

‘A perfectly presented first statement of their intentions…
sending jolts from shoulders to fingertips.’ (8/10)
– CLASH (UK)

‘Possibly the most gripping piece of music you’ll hear this year!’ (8/10) Singe of the Week
– DROWNED IN SOUND (UK)

‘Debut single Distant Street Lights benefits from a dappling of light and shade, floating us along its own river without ever insisting that we drop anchor and, y’know, sob at the beauty of it. Ones to watch, for sure.’
– METRO (UK)

‘These post-rockers have mastered their art of flitting seamlessly between ambient beauty
and heartfelt climaxes which will leave you reeling for more.’
– THE FLY (UK)

’Paper Canyon is a remarkably tight ship.’
– COKEMACHINEGLOW (US)
‘It’s easily one of the most refined and complete sounding instrumental post-rock long-players of recent times. Recommended.’
– BOOMKAT (UK)

‘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 (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) – NARC (UK)

‘When a debut album like this comes along you know that it is an important moment in music
when you hear it, and it only took them five days to record.’ (9/10) – DROP-D (IE)

Don’t Go Awash In This Digital Landscape” mp3 Download (cleared for posting)

CITC are a cinematic post-rock quintet from Kent. They recorded the album in 5 days with Justin Lockey (Bloc Party/Milo/Enter Shakari) and were quickly picked up for rotation on BBC Radio 1 and called ‘Best New Music/Ones To Watch in 2009′ in Rock Sound. The band is touring the UK and Europe with 65daysofstatic among others, and will head to the US in early 2010.