Clues

Posted by Tim on October 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

Clues from Montreal are a significant marker in the Canadian indie music scene. Their exploratory music will resonate with music fans who appreciate creativity. Even attempting to designate the band is fraught with difficulty. In mid 2007 Alden Penner and Brendan Reed got together as an experimental band and played some low profile gigs, which led them to expand the line-up to include Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner as the core of the band. To try and identify individual instruments would take more than a few lines, but to highlight a few: a Commodore 64, pianette, horns. Their first eponymous album which came out in May 2009 in addition to the core band members additionally credits: Thierry Amar, Noah Cannon, Nathan Gage, Ben Howden and Louisa Sage.

Clues - Credit Yannick Grandmont

This is far away from a crackpot conceptual band making noise for the sake of it. Clues create music which leads the listener in to a voyage of discovery, only requiring an open mind to let the music do the work while the listener is carried off to new places. Each track is uniquely positioned, as the instruments and vocals weave their path to a natural conclusion. I often receive releases from experimental bands, who try just too hard to impress. Clues take the use of multiple instruments and styles and keep control of their output, with great use of percussion and bass to keep the music moving forwards . Exactly the type of band who fit perfectly on the indie bands blog. ‘Perfect fit’ is on my list of ‘I must play this again (and again).’