Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon (Vinyl LP)

Paper Canyon is the debut album from Codes In The Clouds, an instrumental post-rock band from Dartford in Kent, first released by Erased Tapes on 1 June 2009. This 10th anniversary edition, released in June 2019, was the album’s first appearance on vinyl.

The five-piece of Ciaran Morahan, Stephen Peeling, Jack Major, Joe Power and Robert Smith recorded the album over five days in the late summer of 2008 at Wavelength Studios in Doncaster, with Justin Lockey producing.

Its six tracks build slowly towards their peaks, and the second side is given over to two pieces of almost ten minutes each, ‘You Are Not What You Think You Are’ and ‘The Distance Between Us’. ‘Fractures’ and ‘Distant Street Lights’ first appeared as the band’s debut double A-side single in 2007, and the band went on to support Mogwai and 65daysofstatic live.

For the reissue, the vinyl master was cut by Barry Grint at Alchemy in London, and the LP comes with a download code.

In 2010 the album was reworked as Paper Canyon Recycled, with remixes from label peers including Nils Frahm and Rival Consoles. For more from the Erased Tapes family, both are a natural next step.