Still Corners – Dream Talk (2024)            





Review:

It makes so much sense for Still Corners to write songs inspired by their dreams that it's somewhat surprising it took them six albums to do it. Letting ideas and phrases ripped from the pages of Tessa Murray's dream journal guide the surreal serenity of Dream Talk may be an obvious choice, but the results never are. Where many dream pop acts blanket their songs in an otherworldly haze of distortion and feedback, Murray and Greg Hughes use space, clarity, and subtly odd production touches to create a more delicate kind of unreality. In much the same way that Murray morphs from a voyager to a voyeur on "Secret World," the abstract metallic shimmers that surround her lend the song a shifting, mirage-like strangeness. Some of Dream Talk's strongest moments pair its elusive sonics with remarkably tight songwriting. The heartbroken synth pop of "Lose More Slowly" is one of several songs that continues Last Exit's feeling of soundtracking a long, late-night drive to nowhere. Even when Still Corners don't depart radically from their past, it's easy to appreciate their gift for creating haunting moods on "Faded Love"'s ghostly AM pop or "Crystal Blue"'s hyper-romantic tropical paradise. Murray and Hughes also perform a skilled balancing act with Dream Talk's arrangements. Though "Today Is the Day" builds into a kaleidoscopic swirl of guitars and electronic textures, it never seems busy, and while "Turquoise Moon"'s midnight surf ballad pares things down to little more than guitar and Murray's voice, it feels timeless, not unfinished. At times, the mood is so sustained that the album resembles one slowly evolving song. At its finest, though, Dream Talk is an alluring reminder of the power of visions and fantasies from a group that's mastered how to bring them to life. — Review by Heather Phares on allmusic





             





Track List:

01 - Today Is the Day

02 - The Dream

03 - Faded Love

04 - What Is Real

05 - Lose More Slowly

06 - Secret World

07 - Let's Make Up

08 - Crystal Blue

09 - The Ship

10 - Turquoise Moon





Media Report:

Genre: dream-pop

Origin: London  

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits

Compression mode: Lossless

Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)





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