Still Corners - The Trip

Time has come to go. Pack your bags hit the open road.

Album: Strange Pleasures [2nd album]
Genre: Dream Pop, Synth Pop
Album Release: May 7th 2013
Length: 6.14
Producer: Greg Hughes
Vocalist: Tessa Murray
Label: Sub Pop Records

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Live in Athens from 2013


Live on A38 Vibes in 2019

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Credits

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• The band members met by chance when one of them was on a train that made an unscheduled stop.
• 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 music does most of the work here with a heavy emphasis being placed on the overall vibe as opposed to the lyrical content. The song starts with getting ready to go on a road trip in what feels like the morning "time has come to go, pack your bags hit the open road" and ends with falling asleep at night "tearing into the night, watching you fall asleep". As always with a trip it isn't really the destination but the journey and with a length running at more than six minutes the song drives all day on scant lyrical content but still manages to feel full.
  
  At nearly twice the length of your average single, and 90 seconds longer than any other song on the album, when I reached the end it felt like I'd been on a long haul. It was time for a hard earned rest. But I was in no way bored or fatigued from listening. The song sucked me in. What was happening to me as a listener reflected what happened to the people in the song. I could practically feel myself welcome the mattress after driving around all day with the wind on my face.
  
  
• Greg will normally start with a drum beat, chord pattern or guitar riff and he'll build the song around that. We'll work together on the vocals and throw ideas around about the arrangement and make many, many tweaks before being happy with the song and letting it rest. (Tessa Murray, talking about the bands song writing process with the When the Sun Hits Blog)
  
  
• "I didn’t have a vision starting out, really. There were no preconceived ideas for this record. It was just a straightforward process of writing a bunch of songs and then trying to get out of the way of them, and letting them take their own course. I still write pretty much everything myself, all of the instrumentation’s me, and then I guess the vocals are more collaborative, because I usually have an idea of how I imagine Tessa sounding when I write the songs. We’ll bounce ideas back and forth about harmonies and that kind of thing." (Greg Hughes talking to The Line of Best Fit in 2013)

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