Still Corners Share New Song “Crystal Blue”
Dream Talk Out April 5 via Wrecking Light
February 23, 2024
Photo by Paul Winter
Dream-pop duo Still Corners release a new album, Dream Talk, on April 5 via the band's Wrecking Light label. Now they've shared the album's third single, “Crystal Blue.” Listen below and the band's upcoming tour dates follow.
A press release describes the meaning behind the song in more detail: “'Crystal Blue' is a torch song about two lovers separated by the sea, who dream of being reunited one day. Hours pass, day and night, the breeze touches their skin, the waves become their only friends as they wait to meet again under the same moon. A soft drum beat, congas and a lone marimba as Tessa Murray asks, “Do the fish sleep, in the ocean blue?” Do you dream of me like I dream of you?' A crystal clear guitar solo takes the listener to the edge of the world as the couple goes to a place they've never heard of to be together again.”
Still Corners previously shared the album's first single, “Secret World,” which was one of my songs of the week. They then shared the album's second single, “The Dream”, via a self-directed music video. “The Dream” was also one of the songs of the week.
Still Corners are the American/British duo Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray. The band's latest album, The last exitwas released earlier in 2021. It was one of the 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 wrote down the dreams I remembered. While recording, I would pull out my dream book and sing over various phrases that Greg was working on. The repetitive nature of the looping and singing was almost like going into a trance. A lot of the songs came out of that process, it was fun and what I thought was kind of rambling ended up surprising us with their different meanings and imagery.”
The album was recorded in the south of France, East Sussex in the UK and Woodstock, New York.
“The songs came together quickly and being able to write from anywhere kept our momentum going,” Murray said.
Hughes produced Dream Talk at the band's studio in Woodstock. He said: “We tried different things like different microphones, amps and effects before committing to anything. Everything was analog mixed through our new SSL console, there's a sparkle to the sound.”
In 2016 Murray wrote a My Inner Geek guest blog post for us Star Trek: The Next Generation and you can read it here.
Still Corners tour Dates:
April 17 – Elsewhere, Brooklyn, New York
April 19 – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California
April 21 – The Crocodile, Seattle, Washington
April 23 – Regency Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
April 26 – Foro Indie Rocks!, Mexico City, Mexico
April 28 – Austin Psych Fest, Austin, Texas
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 – Café de la Danse, Paris, France
May 13 – Paard, The Hague, Netherlands
May 14 – LUX, Hannover, Germany
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 – Škofja Loka Castle, Škofja Loka, Slovenia
May 28 – Lokomotiv, Bologna, Italy
May 29 – Arci Belleza, Milan, Italy
May 31 – Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece
August 14-17 – Paredes de Coura festival, Portugal
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