artist Statue Park

We met the old-fashioned way: old friends, ads in the paper, post-breakup garage sale fundraisers. The way bands used to meet. We made music that way too. We used drums, laptops, guitars, old synths and amps, our voices too; anything we could coax a sound out of. Then we needed a studio, so we built one with our bare hands. It was six months of sweating and swearing, hauling drywall up four flights of narrow Montreal stairs to our top-floor warehouse. And we wrote about buildings, and when we stumbled across a stack of old urban planning journals behind a dilapidated wall, we wrote about those. The resulting sound isn’t the product of a scene but of our own experiments in sound design.

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.

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.