Still Corners Share Video for New Song "The Dream"
Dream Talk Due Out April 5 via Wrecking Light
by Mark Redfern
Still Corners. PhotoCredit: Darcie Thompson
Dream-pop duo Still Corners are releasing a new album, Dream Talk, on April 5 via the band's own Wrecking Light label. Now they have shared the album's second single, "The Dream," via a self-directed music video. Watch it below, followed by the band's upcoming tour dates.
A press release describes the genesis of the video in greater detail: "The video is based on the duo's deep love of mystery novels and cozy crime fiction. Tessa Murray plays a new character called 'Penelope Braithwaite' as she investigates the 'Mystery of the Repeating Dream.' Folks from the fictitious town of 'Reverwood, Sussex' have been falling into a repeating dream trap, when they wake up they realize they are in fact in the same dream. Penelope arrives at a mysterious house to investigate. Does she solve the mystery or is she too stuck in a looping dream? Beautifully filmed in England by the band themselves and featuring steam trains and a dilapidated mansion set on vast gardens, this is a detective story not to be missed!"
Still Corners are the American/British duo of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray. The band's last album, The Last Exit, came out earlier in 2021. It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2021.
Murray had this to say about the album in a previous press release: "The genesis for a lot of these songs came from dreams. Every night I would write down the dreams I could remember. While recording I would pull out my book of dreams and sing over various looped phrases Greg had been working on. The repetitive nature of the looping and singing almost felt like going into a trance. A lot of the songs came from that process, it was fun and what I thought were sort of ramblings ended up surprising us with their various meanings and imagery."
The album was written in the south of France, East Sussex, UK, and Woodstock, New York.
"The songs came together quickly and being able to write from anywhere kept up our momentum," said Murray.
Hughes produced Dream Talk at the band's studio in Woodstock. He said: "We tried various things like different mics, amps and effects before committing to anything. Everything was mixed analog through our new SSL console, there's a gleam to the sound."
In 2016 Murray wrote a My Inner Geek guest blog post for us about Star Trek: The Next Generation and you can read that here.
Still Corners Tour Dates:
April 26 - Foro, Mexico City, Mexico May 5 - Chalk, Brighton, UK May 6 - Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK May 7 - Strange Brew, Bristol, UK May 8 - Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK May 10 - De Casino, St. Niklaas, Belgium May 11 - Willem Twee, Den Bosch, Netherlands May 12 - Cafe de la Danse, Paris, France May 13 - Paard, The Hague, Netherlands May 16 - Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark May 17 - Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg, Germany May 18 - UT Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany May 19 - Lido, Berlin, Germany May 20 - Niebo, Warsaw, Poland May 21 - Kwadrat, Krakow, Poland May 22 - Nova Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia May 24 - Salon IKSV, Istanbul, Turkey May 25 - Salon IKSV, Istanbul, Turkey May 27 - Skofja Loka Castle, Skofja Loka, Slovenia May 28 - Locomotiv, Bologna, Italy May 29 - Arci Belleza, Milan, Italy May 31 - Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece
