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2018-09-19 Still Corners

  All I Know, Bad Country, * Beatcity, Berlin Lovers, * Black Lagoon, Circulars, Clockwork, Crooked Fingers, * Cuckoo, Currents, Demons, Dont Fall In Love, Down with Heaven and Hell, * Dreamhorse, * Dreamlands, Endless Summer, Eyes, * Fade Out, Fireflies, French Kiss, Future Age, * Going Back to Strange, * Hearts of Fools, History Of Love, I wrote in blood, In the Middle of the Night, * Into the Trees, Long Goodbyes, Lost Boys, * Midnight drive, Night Walk, * Sad Movies, Strange Pleasures, * Submarine, The Fixer, The Message, The Photograph, * The Trip, The Twilight Hour, The White Season, Velveteen, We killed the moonlight, Whisper, Wish,

類型: 流行電音, Electronic rock, 獨立搖滾, 夢幻流行, No wave
成員: 強尼·傑威爾, 露絲·拉德萊特, 納·沃克, 漢娜·布萊利, 蜜雪兒·達羅莎, 亞當·米勒
所屬唱片公司: Italians Do It Better, Gold Standard Laboratories, Troubleman Unlimited Records
  Cuckoo


They're doing the 80's style synth pop on this one and very well at that. Reminds me of early stages Depeche mode. Love all the different style changes they go through between albums. Hopefully we can get something new from them soon.

某人係 youtube 對 Dreamhorse 有以上睇法. 我都認同.
當我第一次聽到Still Corners的時候,我乃義無反顧地把他們歸納為Dream-Pop隊伍。Still Corners由音樂製作人兼全能樂手Greg Hughes與女主唱Tessa Murray所發起,Greg是美國人,因為一次到訪英國倫敦時巧遇上Tessa,所以他亦決定留在倫敦組織樂隊與發展。因此,Still Corners亦是一隊英國樂團。

成軍數載的Still Corners,如今為他們出版首張專輯《Creatures of an Hour》的,是美國獨立名廠Sub Pop,而非英國本土的唱片廠牌。當現在的Dream-Pop運動早已由英國而轉移陣地到美國發展,Greg是美國樂手,那麼其實Still Corners又可否納入為當今北美洲Dream-Pop新浪之一分子呢?

Tessa唱出出塵空靈的淒迷嗓音,歌曲緩緩的中板歌曲節奏、幽美的意境氛圍,他們的Dream-Pop聲音聽來就有如Cocteau Twins的後裔;然而Greg的殺手鐧,是為歌曲營造出濃濃的電影音樂感,所以他們亦被拿來跟Julee Cruise作相提並論
《Creatures of an Hour》的開場曲兼主打單曲〈Cuckoo〉正是如斯意境迷濛、有著懾人冷豔氛圍的萬般幽美Dream-Pop歌曲。曾作EP發行的〈Endless Summer〉好比讓Slowdive(要Rachel Roswell主唱時)乘著The Jesus And Mary Chain的節奏而來,而由簡約電子琴帶出的〈Circulars〉我會形容是Broadcast與 Shoegaze的混合體,兩者皆見其Shoegaze基因。

踏著Motorik Beat而來的〈Submarine〉則實行把60年代Surf-Pop以Dream-Pop / Nu-Gaze形式詮釋出來。
再聽〈I Wrote in Blood〉和〈Velveteen〉那種神秘迷惑的電影感,無論是放在David Lynch或王家衞電影裡皆合用。〈The Twilight Hour〉和〈Demons〉的飄逸淒美情味是多麼的縈繞心頭,而溫婉窩心之作〈The White Season〉的鏗鏘琴音,更令歌曲美麗如音樂盒樂曲。
An affair to remember.
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