LP inklusive Downloadcode. "Strange Pleasures" ist der Nachfolger des mit Lorbeeren überhäuften "Creatures Of An Hour".

Das Album wird angeführt von der Single ,Berlin Lovers" sowie den Highlights ,Beginning To Blue", ,Future Age", ,Beatcity" und dem bereits als Albumteaser veröffentlichten ,Fireflies".

,Strange Pleasures" wurde von Bandleader Greg Hughes in seinem Londoner Studio produziert.

Das zweite Album der Band ist mit Sicherheit dazu bestimmt, den STILL CORNERS einen Platz auf dem Olymp des tiefgehenden Dream Pops zu reservieren.

Wo der Vorgänger noch mit zuckrigen Schichten aus Shoegaze-lastigem Retro-Futurismus spielte, ist ,Strange Pleasures" eine sehnigere, mehr auf den Punkt treffende Interpretation der Song- und Studiokunst der 80er Jahre und bewegt sich in der biegsamen Schnittstelle zwischen samtigen Noir Pop à la Angelo Badalamenti (TWIN PEAKS) und der himmlischen Schönheit der COCTEAU TWINS mit feinen Ausbuchtungen in Richtung des Territoriums, das zuerst von MODERN ENGLISH, THE CURE und THE PASSIONS kartographiert wurde und zwischendurch den Hut vor der coolen, anmutigen Ignoranz von europäischen 80er Jahre Poppern wie BERNTHOLER und VIRNA LINDT zieht.

[ENG] London-based duo STILL CORNERS releases its exquisite new album "Strange Pleasures", the follow up to "Creatures Of An Hour", the band's acclaimed 2011 debut, 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.

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 Berntholer and Virna Lindt (read more at Sub Pop).

"Another dreamy, widescreen pop gem" - ["Berlin Lovers" Track Post] Gorilla Vs. Bear "Fireflies"...

is no less beholden to the past-- only, this time, the band's drawing from the spangly, huge-sounding sounds of 1980s synth-pop.

The change suits them well, as it's their most immediate and starry-eyed song to date, with Tessa Murray's multi-tracked vocals navigating their way through gorgeously empty terrain dotted with cymbal washes and gently pulsing synth tones." - ["Fireflies" Track Review, "Best New Track"] - Pitchfork "Called "Fireflies," the tune leans closer to 1980s dance music than previous atmospheric offering, Creatures Of An Hour.

It's still full of the band's signature dreaminess." - Under The Radar "...A wonderful surprise" - ["Fireflies" Track Review] Refinery 29