Montreal, QC
http://radio3.cbc.ca/artists/STATUE-PARK
We met the old-fashioned way: old friends, ads in the paper, post-breakup garage sale fundraisers. The way bands used to meet.
We made music that way too. We used drums, laptops, guitars, old synths and amps, our voices too; anything we could coax a sound out of.
Then we needed a studio, so we built one with our bare hands. It was six months of sweating and swearing, hauling drywall up four flights of narrow Montreal stairs to our top-floor warehouse. And we wrote about buildings, and when we stumbled across a stack of old urban planning journals behind a dilapidated wall, we wrote about those.
The resulting sound isn’t the product of a scene but of our own experiments in sound design. Six months later, we emerged with the assemblage of perfectionist conniptions that we call The Town Planning Review; not a mere collection of songs, but an album.
This band was out of the gates back in 2003, when Toby started writing under the name Statue Park. He cribbed that particular moniker from the Communist theme park that he visited on the outskirts of Budapest, a field of Stalinist monuments and scarlet fever. Jon got pulled in by an ad for keys and guitar with the promise of a two week tour of the States; Mat was drafted from the ashes of old high school bands; and Gabe needed a change of pace from his string-wrangling days and traded in his guitar picks for drum sticks.
In short: there's a clubhouse, there's an album, we made them, kill kill kill, Statue Park.
| Name |
Role |
| Gabriel Rousseau |
Drums |
| Jon Hill |
Guitar/Keyboards |
| Mathieu Delbuguet |
Bass |
Bark Psychosis, Boards of Canada, On a Friday, Sea and Cake, The Notwist
| FANS |
PLAYLISTED |
TOTAL PLAYS |
| 0 |
0 |
25 |
