Still Corners’ Premieres Video For Strange Pleasures

Still Corners’ Premieres Video For Strange Pleasures
Lead Single “Berlin Lovers”

Announces North American Tour Dates

Video Premiere With SPIN.com

Previously Announced UK Tour Dates May 3-11

Watch “Berlin Lovers” video here.

Download “Berlin Lovers” MP3 here.

London-based duo Still Corners have premiered a new video for “Berlin Lovers”, the lead single from their forthcoming album, Strange Pleasures, with SPIN.com. The clip, directed Christian Sorensen Hansen, features band members Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray as employees of a roller skating rink, where a young couple meets and falls in love.  SPIN says of the clip, “Their 2011 Sub Pop debut Creatures of an Hour was a lovely excursion into cinematic soundcraft, but the forthcoming Strange Pleasures, feels both more intimate and more boldly constructed. First taste, "Berlin Lovers," is a fantastic example, combining progressive synth-work with crisp drums for a feeling not unlike a Kavinsky track, while placing Murray's high and breathy vocals in the forefront so that there's no question why we're here: to sit with her story of a memorable encounter between two young people, "almost a man, almost a woman...The accompanying video plays like a pleasant little dream as a teenage couple meets at a roller rink operated by Still Corners' main players. Cue the smoke machines” (see video premiere April 3). 

Still Corners have scheduled North American tour dates in support of Strange Pleasures. The tour begins on May 27th in Phoenix, AZ at Crescent Ballroom and ends on June 14th in Toronto, ON at NXNE.   This is in addition to the bands previously announced UK trek that kicks-off on May 3rd in Liverpool at Sound City and ends May 11th in Bristol at Louisiana. Please find an updated tour schedule below.

Still Corners’ Strange Pleasures, the follow up to Creatures Of An Hour, the band’s acclaimed 2011 debut,  will be available 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” 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.  

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' “Berlin Lovers”:

"Another dreamy, widescreen pop gem" -  Gorilla Vs. Bear

“Tessa Murray’s ethereal vocals are trance-inducing; the song runs under two minutes, but sounds as if it could loop on into some dreamy eternity.” - Stereogum

“…Compellingly strange, endlessly relistenable strobelit pop that in a different world might be inescapable on Top 40 radio.” - Pretty Much Amazing

“Continuing to challenge themselves, the band are able to move forward without losing sight of the flavours which made their debut so seductive.” - Clash 

“…Pure, infectious pop.” - Paper Mag 

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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, United Kingdom - Sound City Festival

May 04 - Leeds, United Kingdom - Live At Leeds Festival

May 05 - Manchester, United Kingdom -St Phillips Church

May 06 - Brighton, United Kingdom- Prince Albert

May 08 - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Portland Arms

May 09 - London, United Kingdom - XOYO

May 10 - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Hare & Hound

May 11 - Bristol, United Kingdom - Louisiana

May 27 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom

May 28 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar

May 29 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Bar

May 30 - San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah

Jun. 01 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios

Jun. 02 - Seattle, Wa - Barboza

Jun. 03 - Vancouver, BC -The Media Club

Jun. 06 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry

Jun. 07 - Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern

Jun. 08 - Detroit, MI - The Garden Bowl at the Majestic

Jun. 10 - Allston, MA - Great Scott

Jun. 11 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge

Jun. 12 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands

Jun. 13  - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie

Jul. 14  - Toronto, ON - NXNE