Statue Park

This band was out of the gates back in 2003, when Toby Andris started writing under the name Statue Park. He cribbed that particular moniker from the Communist 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 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 year off to record and tour China with Montreal French pop wunderkinds Chinatown, and prepare for a composition degree at the Conservatoire de Montreal, Toby has re-assembled Statue Park with a bunch of new songs and the help of long-time contributors Gabriel Rousseau and Jon Hill, as well as the addition of Julien Fargo (Chinatown).

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Statue Park have released two critically acclaimed EPs and toured the United States and Canada. Great things are currently underway.