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Shovels Beat The Sun (previously unreleased)

from Codes In The Clouds (2019) by Codes In The Clouds

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From Stephen Peeling...

We’re still really fond of this song. It was basically removed from the final cut of the album because of the changes the other songs went through. In the end there was no place for it to fit perfectly in the running order. It was always meant to be a partner song with ‘Tide Creeps Like a Thief’. In fact, for a while, we were treating them as one song when editing structures and finalising demo versions. The remnants of that link are still present in the footsteps that remain at the end of ‘Tide’ that ‘Shovels’ begins with, and also in the slightly askew syntax of the titles. The idea was that ‘Tide’ would create a tension and anxiety and that ‘Shovels’ would enter to break that tension and shift the ‘song’ or section of the album into a cleaner, simpler, more familiar place. It was a tough call to break with that concept but as we added more elements to the end of ‘Tide’, trying to smooth the transition in mood between the two songs, we realised that the tonal shift we were looking for had already been achieved in ‘Tide’ alone. We felt it was more concise to leave it there. We kept the footsteps in ‘Tide’ as a little nod of recognition to the role ‘Shovels’ had played in formulating the album. We liked the idea of seemingly building up to something then cutting suddenly to silence. We hoped that might create a bit of intrigue in the listeners as to what was ‘supposed’ to be there. For anyone who had asked that question for a moment, this is the answer.

‘Shovels Beat the Sun’ in of itself is very similar to the kind of stuff we were writing for our debut album ‘Paper Canyon’. Thinking about it now it was pretty inevitable that as we aimed to write something comforting and familiar, we ended up crafting a song in the same way as we used to when we first started. It is how we learnt to play together. We always focussed on the piecing together of small elements to create a flowing but tightly knit overall structure. In the beginning we were more concerned with a general mood and how to draw a song out of a jam or simple idea than we were with intricate textures. This song probably went a bit too far in that direction, but the result is something that strangely makes us feel nostalgic for a period in our lives that had long gone before it even existed. Every individual part is fun to play and tessellates with the other parts easily. It refuses to challenge expectation or deviate from its conformity. That’s not always a bad thing though. Sometimes it’s nice to just let the song roll where it wants to and enjoy where it takes you.’

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from Codes In The Clouds (2019), released October 11, 2019

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Codes In The Clouds hail from Dartford, England. The group weave melodies with an alluring and versatile combination of qualities: melancholic yet uplifting; polished yet unhinged; delicate yet powerful.

2019 sees Codes In The Clouds long awaited release of their new self-titled album through Hobbledehoy. ... more

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