Statue Park

This band was out of the gates back in 2003, when Toby Cayouette started writing under the name Statue Park. He cribbed that particular moniker from the surreal theme park that he visited on the outskirts of Budapest, a field of Stalinist monuments and scarlet fever.
He makes music by letting sounds feed off each other: drums, laptops, guitars, old synths and amps, tape machines, the odd wind instrument and voices too; anything he can coax a sound out of.
Then he needed a studio, so he built one with his friends and crammed a house in the back. It was six months of sweating and swearing, hauling drywall up four flights of narrow Montreal stairs to our top-floor warehouse. And then they were forced out of the building, so he found another, and built another, hoping never to be found, and was eventually forced out of that one too.
And because of the construction in his blood, and his blood all over the construction, he wrote about buildings, and when he stumbled across a stack of old urban planning journals behind a dilapidated wall, he wrote about that too.
Now, after taking a few years off to record 2 albums and tour China, France, Switzerland, and Québec with Montreal French pop wunderkinds Chinatown, Toby has found motivation to re-assemble Statue Park with a bunch of new songs and the help of long-time contributor Jon Hill. He spent the summer of 2011 driving through the desert and writing songs, songs that will appear on the upcoming, long-awaited full-length release by a well-loved band.
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Statue Park have released two critically acclaimed EPs and toured the United States and Canada. Great things are currently underway.



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