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Still Corners’ Strange Pleasures is out now on Sub Pop
UK Headlining tour through May 11th
Supports Chvrches in North America May 28th-June 23rd
“Berlin Lovers” video
Still Corners’ Strange Pleasures is available now worldwide on CD, LP and digitally via Sub Pop. The album 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.
Still Corners will tour North America later this month as direct support for Glaswegian band Chvrches’ headlining tour, which begins May 28th in Portland, OR at Wonder Ballroom and ends on June 23rd in Philadelphia, PA at Union Transfer. Meanwhile, the bands previously announced UK trek is currently underway, with a show tonight, May 9th in London at XOYO and ends on May 11th in Bristol at Louisiana. Please find an updated tour schedule below.
Still Corners Strange Pleasures is the follow up to Creatures Of An Hour, the band’s acclaimed 2011 debut. The album, along with singles & videos “Fireflies” and “Berlin Lovers”, has seen praise from the likes of Exclaim, Pitchfork, SPIN, Under The Radar, Clash, Paper, Gorilla Vs. Bear, Stereogum Drowned in Sound, This Is Fake DIY, Paste, Refinery 29, and many more. At radio this week, Strange Pleasures debuted at no. 30 on CMJ Top 200 Chart, and is also the no. 1 album on the FMQB Sub Modern Chart.
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' Strange Pleasures:
"...The music is ephemeral, but not meandering, the lush arrangements striking a balance between organic instrumentation and the synthetic, the crystalline guitar lines offsetting digital pop effects and subdued drum machine beats." [8/10] Pop Matters
"A welcome, and ultimately pleasurable return." [8/10] - Drowned In Sound
"The feel is consistently of an eerie twilight, perched high above a near-future city." [8/10] - Clash
“Strange Pleasures is an album of cinematic charm and where, with the weight lifted off his shoulders, Hughes has created a journey along a dark motorway that adds light and colour to stand out from the traffic.” - This Is Fake DIY
"Looking to hire a band to record a soundtrack your dreams? London-based Still Corners should get the gig. Their spacey songs, which feature Tessa Murray’s gossamer like vocals, are steeped in lush ‘80’s synth sounds.” - PAPER
"...A brilliant dream-pop record." - Treble
"Like Creatures of an Hour, Strange Pleasures is a piece of great beauty..." [8.1/ 100] PASTE
Tour Dates
May 09 - London, United Kingdom - XOYO
May 10 - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Hare & Hound
May 11 - Bristol, United Kingdom - Louisiana
May 28 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *
May 29 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stops *
Jun. 01 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
Jun. 02 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up *
Jun. 05 - Austin, TX - Mohawk *
Jun. 06 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre *
Jun. 07 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre *
Jun. 08 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line *
Jun. 10 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall *
Jun. 11 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall *
Jun. 12 - Toronto, ON - The Hoxton *
Jun. 15 - Montreal, QE - Le National *
Jun. 16 - Boston, ON - Paradise Rock Club *
Jun. 17 - New York, NY - Webster Hall *
Jun. 18 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Jun. 21- Washington, DC - Black Cat *
Jun. 23 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
* w/ Chvrches
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