It appears I’m in an exploring mood tonight. It turns out I’m behind the curve with Still Corners, they’ve even been the Guardian’s band of the day, but hell, let’s not make that a reason to ignore them. I got to them via a recommendation from our friend Josh, a man who is on the money more often than he isn’t.
Yeah, yeah, more of the shimmery stuff with the obligatory lo-fi whatever. But actually, forgive them their praxis, and even that ever-so-reminiscent delay-reverb drum beat at the start of ‘Endless Summer’, this whole thing is really rather excellent. I’m not going there with the ‘more indie than thou’ genre shit on this one. Like the guy on the game show – “say what you see”. What I see, or rather hear, here are breathy dreamy vocals that come straight out of the dry ice machine, mere snippets (in amongst the more obvious bits) of drum sound that Stephen Morris would have been proud of… damn it, I give up on describing the components. The whole, the overall, is that we are left drifting on some long dream journey. Ever seen that painting of Ophelia by Millais ? That’s where we are with this. Apart from where it gets louder and sounds like the inside of some gentle machine. Enjoy this video trailer, then scroll down to listen to the whole album.
Still Corners – Creatures Of An Hour (Album Trailer Video) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.
