Clues is an indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

 band

Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...

 from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Canada formed by Alden Penner

Alden Penner

Alden Penner is a Canadian musician, founder and member of several indie pop bands. Penner is also a producer.Penner is additionally known in the indie music community as the founder and sometimes, owner of indie record labels in addition to producing and sometimes performing on the albums of the...

, Brendan Reed

Brendan Reed (musician)

Brendan Reed is a multi-instrumentalist from Williamsburg, Virginia known for his work with bands from Montreal, Canada.-Career:Reed was a founding member of Arcade Fire but left the band prior to their first album, Funeral. His drumming and vocals appear on their debut EP, in addition to lead...

 and Bethany Or. After Or left the band, local musicians Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble and Nick Scribner solidified the lineup.

Formation (2007 - 2008)

Clues' first live performance was at the Pop Montreal

Pop Montreal

Pop Montreal is an annual music festival occurring in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the early fall, usually at the end of September or the beginning of October. More than 400 acts are scheduled to play in more than 50 venues across the city, mostly located in the Mile End area...

 festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 in October, 2007

2007 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.-January:*January 1 - George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame...

. At that point, the lineup consisted of guitarist

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

 Alden Penner, drummer Brendan Reed, steven Balogh and keyboardist

Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...

 Bethany Or. Later on there was another show where the formation of the band changed again performing with the five members that are Clues now.

Debut album (2009)

Clues's self-titled debut album

Clues (Clues album)

Clues is the self-titled debut album by Clues.- Release :It was released on May 19, 2009 on Constellation Records.The album leaked onto the internet on April 5, 2009.The track "Cave Mouth" quotes the melody to Jeff Buckley's "New Year's Prayer."...

 was released on May 19, 2009 on Constellation Records

Constellation Records

Constellation Records is an influential Montreal, Quebec independent record label known for its contributions to experimental genres of music. It is most famous for releasing the albums of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, and Do Make Say...

. Radwan moumneh recorded the record at the Hotel2Tango

Hotel2Tango

The Hotel2Tango is a 24-track analogue recording studio situated in the Mile End district of Montreal, Quebec. The current facility is the second to bear the name, and was preceded by a similar operation in the same neighborhood until 2007 when the studio changed locations...

 in 2008, with additional recording with Mark Lawson at Arcade Fire's Petite Église

Petite Église

The Petite Église was a group of French and Belgian Roman Catholics who separated from the main body of the Church in France following the Concordat of 1801 between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon Bonaparte. One modern estimate gives its number of adherents as high as 100,000 at one time...

studio. A few months before the album was released, Clues did a very small tour in North America along with labelmates Elfin Saddle, playing mostly at small colleges. The band then returned to Montreal. In the Summer of 2009, Clues toured North America more extensively in support of the album but continued to play exclusively at small, all-ages venues. In autumn a European tour followed.

External links

• Clues at the Constellation Records website