Album Review: Slow Air by Still Corners

Still Corners, the duo of Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray, have been honing their craft since they dropped their debut album Creatures of An Hour in 2011. Three albums later this sound has evolved into a marvelous mix of sublime dreaminess and smart atmospheric pop-rock. It's a sound that borrows heavily from the Cocteau Twins/Beach House aesthetic of airy guitars, hushed indie-rock beats, and ethereal vocals.

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Still Corners make the kind of music you can wrap yourself up in. Their brand of dream pop isn't necessarily groundbreaking; like M83 or Beach House, they make heavy use of distant melodies, tons of reverb and piles of synth pads. But on Slow Air, there is an increasing element of urgency to their music. Even at its most nocturnal and dreamy, they still want to command your full attention instead of floating innocuously around you.   Don't be mistaken, Still Corners are still clinging hard to their nocturnal, dreamlike tendencies. The ….

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On their third album, Dead Blue, Still Corners pulled up their physical and musical roots, moving from London to the seaside to make epic pop songs inspired by the water's depths. For its follow-up, Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray change their surroundings and sound once again, this time even more dramatically: to make Slow Air, the duo moved to the hill country near Austin, Texas. Still Corners find just as much mystery in the region's rolling vistas and heat as they did in Dead Blue's seascapes, but the way they express it is notably different.

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At their worst, the duo of Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes, known to many as Still Corners, sound like a less enthused cover band of The Sundays. When at their best (2013 album Strange Pleasures), they resemble a mix of The Blue Nile and Mazzy Star. That being said, their latest excursion through ….

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