Anglo-American duo Still Corners kick off the new year with a brand new single, ‘The Dream, ‘ available on all streaming platforms. ‘The Dream’ is the second single announced off the eagerly awaited sixth album Dream Talk, available on 5th April 2024 via their own record label, Wrecking Light Records.
‘The Dream’ is Still Corners at their most seductive and romantic. This mysterious tale centres around a quote from Shakespeare’s illustrious A Midsummer’s Night Dream: “Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream”. Shakers and a lone rhythm guitar drop into a fast-paced beat of bass and drums, reminiscent of a train travelling at speed through a desert night – “we are on a night train, heading to the east end”. Tessa Murray’s melodic vocals are revealed gradually as the instrumental moves towards its climax. Shifting synths combine with crescendoing congas, gradually revealing the complete picture of this epic adventure – “dream within a dream”.
Speaking of the accompanying music video, Tessa Murray added: “The video is based on our deep love of mystery novels and cosy crime fiction. I play 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 realise they are, in fact, in the same dream. Penelope arrives at a mysterious house to investigate. Does she solve the mystery, or is she also stuck in a looping dream? That’s for you to find out.”Beautifully filmed in the English countryside by the band, featuring steam trains and a dilapidated mansion set in vast gardens, this detective story is not to be missed!
Recorded across three studios in the south of France, East Sussex, and Woodstock, New York, Dream Talk is elegant and wistful with a focused, stylish and seductive sound. Shaped by fantasies, dreams and automatic writing, Dream Talk almost fell together in a dream-like state. Murray explains: “I had tapped into something new, and the way it came out was quite hypnotic, like a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep,” adding the album name essentially wrote itself.
Still Corners is the musical project of Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes, and formed shortly after Murray met Hughes by chance at a London train stop in 2009. Over the next (nearly) fifteen years, the band has delivered a steady stream of music that is at once reflective, searching and romantic. Showcasing a unique shimmering desert-noir sound, Still Corners has earned global commercial success with such releases as Strange Pleasures (2013) and 2021’s The Last Exit.
New single ‘The Dream’ is available on all streaming service since 23rd January 2024, ahead of their sixth album, Dream Talk, on 5th April 2024 via Wrecking Light Records.
TOUR DATES
17 APR | BROOKLYN, NY | ELSEWHERE
19 APR | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL
21 APR | SEATTLE, WA | THE CROCODILE
23 APR | LOS ANGELES, CA | REGENCT THEATRE
26 APR | MEXICO CITY, MX | FORO INDIE ROCKS!
28 APR | AUSTIN, TX | AUSTIN PSYCH FEST
5 MAY | BRIGHTON, UK | CHALK
6 MAY | MANCHESTER, UK | BAND ON THE WALL
7 MAY | BRISTOL, UK | STRANGE BREW
8 MAY | LONDON, UK | ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL
10 MAY | ST. NIKLAAS, BE | DE CASINO
11 MAY | DEN BOSCH, NL | WILLEM TWEE
12 MAY | PARIS, FR | CAFÉ DE LA DANSE
13 MAY | THE HAGUE, NL | PAARD
14 MAY | HANNOVER, DE | LUX
16 MAY | COPENHAGEN, DK | LOPPEN
17 MAY | HAMBURG, DE | BAHNHOF PAULI
18 MAY | LEIPZIG, DE | UT CONNEWITZ
19 MAY | BERLIN, DE | LIDO
20 MAY | WARSAW, PL | NIEBO
21 MAY | KRAKOW, PL | KWADRAT
22 MAY | BRATISLAVA, SK | NOVA CVERNOVKA
24 MAY | ISTANBUL, TR | TBC
25 MAY | ISTANBUL, TR | TBC
27 MAY | ŠKOFJA LOKA, SI | ŠKOFJA LOKA CASTLE
28 MAY | BOLOGNA, IT | LOCOMOTIV
29 MAY | MILAN, IT | ARCI BELLEZA
31 MAY | ATHENS, GR | GAGARIN 205
14-17 AUG | PEREDES DE COURA, PT | PAREDES DE COURTA FESTIVAL
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