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Monolithic Cloud Parade is the brainchild of Columbus, Ohio native Corey Fry. The moniker was adopted in the summer of 2006 while driving to California and writing down long strands of random words in order to make a viable band name. Later that fall, Corey decided to challenge himself to learn the guitar and put the band name to use. For two years he wrote and recorded in the middle room upstairs, eventually realizing that he had upwards of a hundred songs deemed listenable by his brother, mom, and girlfriend. |So in the fall of 2008 he set out to find a band. Two weeks later, Monolithic Cloud Parade was reborn as a full fledged five piece collective. The newly formed band began practicing at least once a week throughout the winter, and made their debut show in Cleveland in February of 2009 for a friend’s birthday party. In March, the band began playing in Columbus to surprising audience and peer approval. |A debut album, “Children With Wolf Heads” is being released in the summer of 2009. It’s a re-imagining of the earliest songs written by Corey, and over the span of 11 songs tells the story of a pack of turn-of-the-century carnival freak show children with wolf heads who escape the wagon train and head off into the forest to fend for themselves.|Those who see them live compare Monolithic Cloud Parade most often to the Neutral Milk Hotel, early Modest Mouse, and the works of Spencer Krug (Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade). |
