Still Corners - Strange Pleasures

You drift along the desert sun.

Album: Strange Pleasures [2nd album]
Genre: Dream Pop, Synth-Pop
Album Release: May 7th 2013
Length: 5.12
Producer: Greg Hughes
Vocalist: Tessa Murray
Label: Sub Pop Records

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Spotify: Over 6 million
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• Still Corners make music about traveling open landscapes such as "The Trip" and "Black Lagoon". There's a sense of adventure, alongside its accompanying freedom, that comes from driving around the open roads under starlit skies or the blistering heat of the desert sun, various landscapes big enough to swallow you whole.
  
  In such a place, time loses its importance and the conventional rules of behaviour no longer apply. It's an opportunity to reforge yourself away from the constraints of society. A place where the laws of people are forgotten and all that matters are the law of nature.
  
  The dreamy production, with its lush swirls of warm electronic fuzz, combine with the vocals to create a sense of drift, of being at peace in an atmospheric neverland between two points. I suspect the rider hopes they'll never arrive at their destination, her intoxicating melodies linger wistfully over the music. In the verses she urges the driver to "ride, ride, ride, ride," directing the journey towards a distant point on the horizon, far enough away for it to be an eternity.
  
  
• The singer Tessa Murray has said that 'Strange Pleasures', the song, best represents the groups sound.
  
• 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).
  
  
  

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