The debut album ‘Creatures of An Hour‘ from Still Corners is out today on Sub Pop. Recorded at the band’s own studio in Greenwich, the devil is truly in the details. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Still Corners (filled out to a four-piece by Dufficy and Luke Jarvis) crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams. Lead single “Cuckoo” shines in its simplicity, a single drumbeat, ghostly guitar, and distant organ highlighting Murray’s haunting soprano as she asks, “I’d like to read your mind/can you read mine?” “It’s about confusion,” explains Hughes. “It’s about being confused. Am I going crazy? Does this person like me? What’s happening? That’s the vibe of the whole record really.”
Elsewhere, the tone isn’t so much one of emotional conflict as it is pure atmosphere. Like a world-class art director, Hughes fills the set of “Endless Summer” with walls of reverb and splashes of longing, echoing a very real conflict in his own life—the pursuit of the illusive London sun. “It’s about wishing and chasing after the fleeting sun of England and wishing for an endless summer—or at least that the summer would go on a bit longer,” he says with a laugh. “It only seems to last about a week here!”
The band’s album launch at Cafe Oto tonight is now sold out.
