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Sub Pop Shares Release Details for Still Corners Strange Pleasures,
Offer Download of Lead Single “Berlin Lovers”
“Berlin Lovers” MP3 premiere with ‘Pitchfork’;
Plus - May UK tour dates announced
Download “Berlin Lovers” here (email required).
Sub Pop is pleased to share the news that London-based duo Still Corners will release its exquisite new album Strange Pleasures, the follow up to Creatures Of An Hour,
the band’s acclaimed 2011 debut, on May 6 in Europe and May 7 in North
America via Sub Pop. The album will be available on CD, LP and
digitally, and is led by the single “Berlin Lovers” (see also Pitchfork track review February 25), as well as highlights “Beginning to Blue”, “Future Age,” “Beatcity,” and the previously released album teaser, “Fireflies”. Strange Pleasures was produced by band leader Greg Hughes at his Greenwich studio in London. Please find a full tracklisting below.
Still Corners will support Strange Pleasures with
European and North American tour dates throughout 2013, beginning with
a short UK trek that kicks-off on May 3 in Liverpool at Sound City and
ends May 11 in Bristol at Louisiana. There will be a North American
tour announcement in the coming weeks. Please find a current tour
schedule below.
More on Still Corners Strange Pleasures:
Riding that insatiable kinesis over the last two years has
resulted in Hughes, along with singing accomplice Tessa Murray,
fashioning a devastating sophomore album, Strange Pleasures,
which is surely destined to usher Still Corners to a deserved place at
cerebral dream-pop’s high table. Where its predecessor soared on
sugared layers of shoegazing-infused retro-futurism, Strange Pleasures
proffers a leaner, more acute extrapolation of ’80s-suffused song and
studio craft, navigating a sinuous trajectory between velveteen Angelo
Badalamenti noir-pop torch song sophistication and ethereal Cocteau
Twins beauty, with exquisite meanders through the glacial but
mellifluous territory first mapped by Modern English, The Cure and The
Passions, with nods along the way to cool, graceful detachment a la
’80s Euro avant-poppers such as Bernthøler and Virna Lindt (read more
at Sub Pop).
What people are saying about Still Corners:
"Another dreamy, widescreen pop gem" - ["Berlin Lovers" Track Post] Gorilla Vs. Bear
"Fireflies"... is no less beholden to the past-- only, this time,
the band's drawing from the spangly, huge-sounding sounds of 1980s
synth-pop. The change suits them well, as it's their most immediate and
starry-eyed song to date, with Tessa Murray's multi-tracked vocals
navigating their way through gorgeously empty terrain dotted with
cymbal washes and gently pulsing synth tones.” - [“Fireflies” Track
Review, "Best New Track”] Pitchfork
“Called “Fireflies,” the tune leans closer to 1980s dance music than previous atmospheric offering, Creatures Of An Hour. It’s still full of the band’s signature dreaminess.” - Under The Radar
“...A wonderful surprise” - [“Fireflies” Track Review] Refinery 29
Still Corners
Strange Pleasures
Tracklisting
01. The Trip
02. Beginning To Blue
03. I Can’t Sleep
04. All I Know
05. Fireflies
06. Berlin Lovers
07. Future Age
08. Going Back to Strange
09. Beatcity
10. Midnight Drive
11. We Killed the Moonlight
12. Strange Pleasures
Tour Dates
May 03 - Liverpool, UK - Sound City -- http://www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk/home/tickets-and-info.aspx
May 04 - Leeds, UK - Live At Leeds -- https://www.lunatickets.co.uk/news_item_page.php?newsID=247
May 05 - Salford, UK - SFTOC / St. Philips Church -- http://soundsfromtheothercity.com/tickets/
May 06 - Brighton, UK - The Albert -- http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208844
May 08 - Cambridge, UK - Portland Arms -- http://www.greenmind.co.uk
May 09 - London, UK - XOYO -- http://www.parallellines.ticketabc.com/events/still-corners
May 10 - Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds -- http://birminghampromoters.com
May 11 - Bristol, UK - Louisiana -- http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/40677
Prolific musical experimenter, premier league pop craftsman, tireless producer,
runt, wizard and true star Todd Rundgren will release his new studio album
‘STATE’ on the Esoteric Antenna label via Cherry Red on Tuesday, April 9th.
‘STATE’ is Rundgren’s 24th solo studio album (and that’s not including the 2
albums he recorded with his first band the Nazz, and the 9 albums he recorded
with his band Utopia!).
Todd’s latest musical vision is a fusion of rock, soul, r’n’b and electronica
that is at once danceable, groundbreaking, spiritual, challenging and
infectious.
The full tracklisting of the album is:
TODD RUNDGREN: ‘State’
Imagination
Serious
In My Mouth
Ping Me
Angry Bird
Smoke
Collide-A-Scope
Something From Nothing
Party Liquor
Sir Reality
To coincide with the release of ‘STATE’ Todd will set out on a world tour, which
will touch down the US in May.
The full list of shows is:
May 05 – Woodstock, N.Y., Bearsville Theater
May 08 – Norfolk, Conn., Infinity Hall
May 10 – New York, N.Y., The Gramercy Theatre
May 11 – Philadelphia, Pa., Trocadero Theatre
May 12 – Huntington, N.Y., The Paramount
May 14 – Kent, Ohio, The Kent Stage
May 15 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Rex Theater
May 16 – Columbus, Ohio, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
May 18 – Cincinnati, Ohio, Bogart's
May 19 – Chicago, Ill., Park West
May 20 – Minneapolis, Minn., Varsity Theater
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Todd Rundgren began playing guitar as a
teenager, going on to front The Nazz, the quintessential `60s psychedelic pop
group. In 1969, he left the band to pursue a solo career, recording his debut
Runt. But it was 1972's seminal Something/Anything? on which he played all the
instruments, sang all the vocal parts, and acted as his own producer, that
catapulted Todd into the limelight prompting the media to dub him “Rock's New
Wunderkind.” It was followed by such landmark LPs as Todd, The Hermit of Mink
Hollow and A Wizard A True Star.
In 1974, Todd formed Utopia, who were on the cutting edge of progressive rock in
the 70s and developed into a very tidy power pop outfit into the 80s.
Rundgren's career as a producer has included seminal albums by The New York
Dolls, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, Psychedelic Furs, XTC, Hall And Oates and one
of the best selling albums of all time, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell. Sealing his
reputation as rock's Renaissance Man, Rundgren composed all the music and lyrics
for Joe Papp's 1989 Off-Broadway production of Joe Orton's Up Against It (the
screenplay commissioned by The Beatles for what was meant to have been their
third motion picture), as well as the score for Dumb and Dumber and a number of
television series, including Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Crime Story.
Todd’s annual musical summer camp, this year celebrating his 65th birthday and
dubbed Toddstock v6.5, takes place near New Orleans on June 17-22.
Todd's Official Site: 
