It was a dark and foggy night when Still Corners songwriter Greg Hughes first laid eyes on vocalist Tessa Murray (now filled out to a 4-piece by Leon Dufficy and Luke Jarvis). “It sounds stupid but it’s completely true,” he recounts. “I was on a train that was going to London Bridge. But for some reason it went to this other stop and I got out. And this other person got out. It was Tessa.” It was a fitting moment for the American musician who came to London to pursue a career in music. A devoted cinephile whose first release Remember Pepper recalls both the youthful tone of French New Wave and the unease of Italian horror. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams. This show will mark the launch of Still Corner’s debut LP Creatures Of An Hour released on Sub Pop.

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THE LUYAS

Experimental Canadian indie rock ensemble The Luyas make arty, atmospheric pop. Formed in Quebec in 2006, the band centers around lead vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jessie Stein and also features keyboardist/French horn player Pietro Amato, drummer Stefan Schneider, and organist Mathieu Charbonneau. Stein's sad-girl songs exploded, with fragments and shrapnel and half-burnt thoughts then reassembled in impressionist mosaics of hallucinated pop-song. The Luyas paint an inner landscape at odds with a corporeal world unexpectedly elusive; authoring a series of hazy musical canvases where nothing is truly tangible, unease persists, and strangeness reins.

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