Recorded in just six days at Brighton Electric in September 2010, As The Spirit Wanes will be released in the UK on January 31st, 2011. Whilst from the outside last year has looked rosy for Codes In The Clouds with a remix album release, successful tours and festival slots, it’s also been a difficult year behind the scenes. Yet personal loss has proven a collective driving force, bringing the band closer as a group and shaping their surprisingly optimistic second offering:

“It’s not that the album has a set concept or theme, it’s just that each member of the band went through similar experiences around the same sort of time. So naturally, this is reflected in the album. We all feel really close to it, and it’s definitely the music we want to make. It’s a very personal record to us and we feel it’s a big step forward from the first release. The songs are definitely a better reflection of us as a collective of people. Hopefully others will identify with the ideas within the record and can relate it to their own experiences.” 

Co-produced by Erased Tapes initiator Robert Raths and label mate Ryan West, then mastered by Nils Frahm at his studio in Berlin, As The Spirit Wanes could almost be described as a family affair. Even the artwork has been inspired by the band’s time in Iceland, performing as part of the Erased Tapes label night at Iceland Airwaves 2010. Most importantly, it’s all about songs with As The Spirit Wanes offering its listener stunning melodies and razor-sharp hooks. From the Beach Boys pop appeal of Look Back, Look Up to the euphoric Washington, down to the emotionally charged two-minute hymn If I’d Have Known This Was The Last, Codes In The Clouds embody their genre in its most rewarding form. 


‘Delicate guitar-focussed passages that bloom and explode with a primitive, dramatic beauty...with "Look Back, Look Up" as close as the genre gets to pop’ *** – UNCUT

As The Spirit Wanes

Codes In The Clouds - Washington

Aves

From Jakob's "Solace" Album.

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Lonesome

Taken from our upcoming album, Appearances of Collections, which will be released on 18th August. Get a free download of the album if you buy tickets for ArcTanGent using this link: tiny.cc/rumourcubes-ATG

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Hiyat

± "Over heavy haze, the clouds are coming, a sun has set and as a storm awaits, I sit patiently with the weight of thick air & longing." ±

'A Séance of Dark Delusions' May UK Tour
3rd Brudenell, Leeds
4th Village Underground, London
5th Deaf Institute, Manchester
6th Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow
8th Contemporary, Nottingham
9th Concorde 2, Brighton
10th The Lantern, Bristol

Festivals:

April
25th Out Of The Crowd Festival, Luxembourg, LX

Tickets: http://nordicgiants.co.uk

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It’s the sound of beauty buried beneath noise, of emotion trying to break through digital decay.

NONE OF THIS IS REAL

Wild Strawberries (INSTRUMENTAL DEMO)

Maybeshewill - Co-conspirators

2007 demo. Original pressing was on mini CD-Rs, now avaliable for free download at the Lost Children Net Label - http://www.archive.org/details/lost_children

one day you will teach me to let go of my fears (v1)

Taken from 'The Quiet Lamb". available to order now: http://www.denovali.com/hernameiscalla

The Quiet Lamb

Condor and River

"We Are Close As This" is the single of the forthcoming "The Silent Cry" EP. 

The EP will be officially released on April 19th 2013. Pre-orders already started, available on: http://collapseundertheempire.com/shop/pre-order

one day you will teach me to let go of my fears (v1)

sleepmakeswaves