Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
|
Product Description
Debut 2011 album! Ghostly paisley-pop 'n' cinematic orchestrations outta London, for fans of Ennio Morricone and Broadcast.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
London ensemble, Still Corners are, substantially, singer Tessa Murray
and musician/writer Greg Hughes. Together they have created a dense,
atmospheric debut with their album 'Creatures Of An Hour'. Stygian dreams abound.
The influence of 60's girl bands' and 80's synth-pop's darker moments permeates
the recording like a grey cloud. Monochrome moodiness is the order of the day!
There are ten numbers in the set and it is hard to imagine either of our
erstwhile hosts cracking a smile let alone grooving on down at their local
discotheque but this should not trouble us. Night's dolorous hues become them.
Ms Murray has the kind of voice which might trouble our loneliest moments.
Breathy and ephemeral, it hangs well-back in the mix like a shadow. Sometimes
it is barely present at all. In 'The White Season', for example, the vocals
hang in the air like a cold grey mist. The wintry harmonies are truly chilling.
Elsewhere, the folksy ambience of 'I Wrote In Blood' works hard to warm our
frozen bones but Mr Hughes' quasi-psychedelic arrangement undermines any real
possibility of a re-kindling of the flames for yet one more summer of love.
There is little emotional abandonment in this music; it is strictly controlled
in its single-minded mission to lull us into a sense of troubled insecurity.
'Velveteen', despite its tinkling bells, does little more to reassure us
that something transcendent may lay at the end of the rainbow and 'Demons',
with its baleful acoustic guitar and positively ghostly vocal performance, has
a suffocating presence which washes over us like an uninvited nightmare.
The Phil Spector-meets-Cocteau Twins clamour of 'Endless Summer' is, perhaps,
the mordant highlight of the set but I'm not quite sure how one would dance to it!
'Creatures Of An Hour' would not form the ideal background to a romantic
evening by the fireside (unless your date is possessed of a fine pair of
leathery wings and yellowing fangs!) but in its own singular way I was more than
convinced of its somber charms. It would nobly grace even the dankest sepulchre.
Cautiously Recommended.
and musician/writer Greg Hughes. Together they have created a dense,
atmospheric debut with their album 'Creatures Of An Hour'. Stygian dreams abound.
The influence of 60's girl bands' and 80's synth-pop's darker moments permeates
the recording like a grey cloud. Monochrome moodiness is the order of the day!
There are ten numbers in the set and it is hard to imagine either of our
erstwhile hosts cracking a smile let alone grooving on down at their local
discotheque but this should not trouble us. Night's dolorous hues become them.
Ms Murray has the kind of voice which might trouble our loneliest moments.
Breathy and ephemeral, it hangs well-back in the mix like a shadow. Sometimes
it is barely present at all. In 'The White Season', for example, the vocals
hang in the air like a cold grey mist. The wintry harmonies are truly chilling.
Elsewhere, the folksy ambience of 'I Wrote In Blood' works hard to warm our
frozen bones but Mr Hughes' quasi-psychedelic arrangement undermines any real
possibility of a re-kindling of the flames for yet one more summer of love.
There is little emotional abandonment in this music; it is strictly controlled
in its single-minded mission to lull us into a sense of troubled insecurity.
'Velveteen', despite its tinkling bells, does little more to reassure us
that something transcendent may lay at the end of the rainbow and 'Demons',
with its baleful acoustic guitar and positively ghostly vocal performance, has
a suffocating presence which washes over us like an uninvited nightmare.
The Phil Spector-meets-Cocteau Twins clamour of 'Endless Summer' is, perhaps,
the mordant highlight of the set but I'm not quite sure how one would dance to it!
'Creatures Of An Hour' would not form the ideal background to a romantic
evening by the fireside (unless your date is possessed of a fine pair of
leathery wings and yellowing fangs!) but in its own singular way I was more than
convinced of its somber charms. It would nobly grace even the dankest sepulchre.
Cautiously Recommended.
Format:MP3 Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was very pleased to discover this new group. They are following closely in the footsteps of the late, great Broadcast, with a psychedelic, 60s film-noiry sound and dreamy female vocals. Still Corners' airy and ethereal sound also reminds me of some early 90s shoegazing acts like Swallow (anyone else remember them?) and Lush.
I only had to listen to the samples for a few seconds to know that I would buy this. And I wasn't disappointed when I did.
I only had to listen to the samples for a few seconds to know that I would buy this. And I wasn't disappointed when I did.
Format:Audio CD
This is beautiful. I bought the CD a week ago and have played it at least once every day since. It's also on my phone, iPod and PC. The guitar sounds gorgeous. The voice is heaven. If you like Julee Cruise and the music Angelo Badalamenti wrote for Twin Peaks, you'll love this, too. If I could give it ten stars, I'd do so happily.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Ephemeral music - with a hint of steal that is one of my top five...
Music is indeed my sanctuary, but rarely do I have the gumption to pick up my laptop and bother writing a review for even my most favourite of things.... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Musicismysanctuary
Swiftly moving into the 21st century's idea of western 1960s...
Music is indeed my sanctuary, but rarely do I have the gumption to pick up my laptop and bother writing a review for even my most favourite of things.... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Musicismysanctuary
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
