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Still Corners - Black Lagoon

We swim with the moon to an island on the black lagoon.

Album: Slow Air [4th album]
Recorded: Austin, Texas
Genre: Dream Pop, Synth Pop
Album Release: August 17th 2018
Length: 5.33
Producer: Greg Hughes
Vocalist: Tessa Murray
Label: Wrecking Light Records


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Live on KUTX in 2018



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  • The band members met by chance when one of them was on a train that made an unscheduled stop.
  • This album features more guitars than on their previous efforts.
  • The band take their name from the poem 'New Hampshire' by Robert Frost:

    Still Corners (so called not because
    The place is silent all day long, nor yet
    Because it boasts a whisky still—because
    It set out once to be a city and still
    Is only corners, crossroads in a wood).

  • The song has a midnight feel. Listening was as if I was having the type of fun you can only have after dark, when the moonlight has revealed a secret world where private affairs are frequent but forgotten by daybreak. There are several mentions of water, with its transformative quality, "turning back into the tide" and "we swim with the moon", which also creates a feeling of running towards but then turning away. That same sense of push and pull can also be felt in the chorus "can't get away, getaway" with its juxtaposition of opposites replicating the coming and going of the tides. All of this contributes to the hazy, other worldly feel of the thing.

    One thing I have noticed with Still Corners is that the music tends to come first and then the vocals are constructed to match the overall feel and pull everything together. The voice is an instrument among many. Although the music wouldn't sound the same without Tessa Murray dreamy serenades for me Still Corners is foremost a Greg Hughes project.



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