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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
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