2011. BEST FOR GUESTS. 17 code pie

Code Pie is from Montreal and started back in the year 2000 when Enzo started to record songs on his own. Two years later, Sal started to collaborate with him and from that point, didn't took much to the other members start to join the duo. Today, Code Pie is a sextet with 3 albums released (including Love Meets Rage, released this year via their own Flagless Records and Indiecater).
Their music is a mixture of lush bedroom pop with layers of noisy melodies, horns and soaked guitars. All mashed up perfectly, which is pretty astonishing once you get to know that their latest album comes from a 2 years period of jam sessions.
Atmospheric, moody, pop, rock, intensely aggressive and seemingly delicate. The beauty is all there beneath the reverbs for you to hear.

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[ENZO] SONGS

DUDES MR MCALISTER

TERRACOTTA BLUE LAKE AUTUMN

DUSK WARRIOR DOUBLE DUTCH DAWN

WILCO ONE SUNDAY MORNING (SONG FOR JANE SMILEY'S BOYFRIEND)

ATLAS SOUND THE SHAKES

[SAL] SONGS

JACUZZI BOYS GLAZIN'

YOUTH LAGOON AFTERNOON

SMITH WESTERN ALL DIE YOUNG

CASS MCCOMBS COUNTY LINE

FLEET FOXES HELPLESSNESS BLUES

 

code pie. interview #43

Whenever I listen to bands like Code Pie, I get myself thinking about what it takes for a band to reach massive success... I'm aware that some bands don't have this goal - and I simply adore that - but really, what does it take?
Code Pie completes a decade in 2012 having released three absolutely stunning albums and you, indie lover, probably don't know that. I'll focus my words on their latest album 'Love Meets Rage', released last April on their own label, Flagless Records.
This album was built during a period of two years and it's a complex, profound and intricate combination of (love and rage) layers of crafting and feelings, going from C86 sappy pop and reaching powerful ballads (but not before passing through some shoegaze and reverberations). All put together, in one song, managing to give you a feeling that everything's in its right place, tempo and rhythm. Beneath the noise of reverberations or distorted guitars, there's a beautiful and delicate piano. When the noise is gone, there's this dreamy and dense horn/trumpet carrying a song like a cloud over the city. Just like that:  without any visible (or listenable) effort.
Take 'North Side City View', for instance: a 4 minute song that starts very pop-ish and suddenly turns into an instrumental-almost-ambient song that slowly builds up into a crescendo and takes you along, you wanting or not... the same happens in 'Morning After'.
What makes Code Pie stand out from other bands from the (amazing) Canadian scene, is their ability to keep an aesthetic unity and, at the same time, not holding back when building the tension for their musical combinations (again, love and rage).
Here's to you your new favourite Canadian band.

Before the interview, check an awesome video and cover for 'Baby', a song from fellow Canadian singer  Justin Bieber.

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