Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour

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1 - Cuckoo
2 - Circulars
3 - Endless Summer
4 - Into The Trees
5 - The White Season
6 - I Wrote In Blood
7 - The Twilight Hour
8 - Velveteen
9 - Demons
10 - Submarine

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5...according to our Brian on Fri 07 Oct, 2011.

Wine. You want to drink this album down with a wine. I dunno how exactly I'm supposed to feel about this collection of demure chamber melancholia & atmospheric indie chiming? 'Creatures of an Hour' appears to combine the hugely popular breathy introversion of bands such as Warpaint or Beach House & the cinematic sensuality of Broadcast and early Electrelane without remotely looking like a twat! That takes a special band and I reckon Still Corners might be just that. To load your songs with this much atmosphere without being overtly gothic, pretentious or otherwise sterile is a miracle. This London four-piece are somehow "brilliant" whilst neither particularly caring nor trying; dreamy hooks and longing melodies course through my mind leaving me in a most blissful state! There's nothing hugely new about this music but fuck the futurists, Still Corners on their debut big record provide a really warm, intimate yet detached & sad pop outing infused with smoky pulses, ethereal regret & effortless pop nous, I for one feel a happier man after tuning in....x

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• The debut full length from Still Corners glows with the delicate vocals of singer Tessa Murray and the atmospheric, cinematic influences of songwriter Greg Hughes.

• Still Corners capture both the youthful tone of French New Wave and the unease of Italian horror, from the projections (created by band member Leon Dufficy) that feature heavily in their live performances, to the free-floating grace of ‘Creatures Of An Hour’.

• Recorded at Hughes’ own studio in Greenwich, fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams.

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