Strange Pleasures

Strange Pleasures

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<i>Strange Pleasures</i> is the second album by London's Still Corners. Where its predecessor, 2010's <i>Creatures of an Hour</i>, also on Sub Pop, soared on sugared layers of shoegazing-infused retro-futurism, Strange Pleasures proffers a leaner, more acute extrapolation of '80s-suffused song and studio craft, navigating a sinuous trajectory between velveteen noir-pop and the glacial, mellifluous territory mapped by Modern English, The Cure and The Passions. Presaged by the soaring "Fireflies" single (Pitchfork's Best New Track of 9/28/2012), <i>Strange Pleasures</i> brings the Still Corners story up to date.