Codes In The Clouds, a band who (if you look in the right places) have been on the underground of the underground scene for quite a while but this looks set to change with their debut album 'Paper Canyon.' Although blatantly heavily influenced by Explosions in the Sky (even their name sounds similar) Codes in the Clouds do bring something a little different to the table. For a start I haven't heard an English band this intriguing for quite a while.
With hoards and hoards of indie electro wannabes clogging London's bars every night hearing music as brilliant as this despite their obvious parallels is extremely refreshing and I am still surprised how few bands are attempting this sort of music.
For a debut album, Code in the Clouds have outdone themselves, Paper Canyon flows in and out of heavy drums, distorted basslines and echoed, delayed guitars, the opener 'Fractures' sums them up extremely well, five minutes of melodramatic instrumental rock that gets better with every listen. Of course it wouldn't be a proper 'Post Rock' album without at least one song over the nine minute mark, their final two 'You Are Not What You Think You Are' and 'The Distance Between Us' both fill up nearly ten mins and both barely waste a second, emotional build ups to chaotic epic finishes.
There is a huge amount of potential in these guys and with such a great debut, already getting great feedback, Code in the Clouds could well go far.
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