We were huge fans of Grand Rapids, Michigan songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Marley Ferguson's previous group PARTS, which released one stellar EP of swooning, poignant dream-pop via our friends at Winspear back in 2016...
Oslo's Ellie Linden and her band Das Body follow up their irresistible debut single/summer jam "Boys" with another pulsing neon-hued gem from their debut EP, out next month on Luminelle Recordings...
When her debut album At Weddings made a fleeting appearance on bandcamp late last year, we fell in love with Tomberlin's devastating "Self-Help", an exquisite, achingly intimate inner devotional that was intensely moving and quietly powerful in a way that recalled Seven Swans-era Sufjan...
Presenting the third installment in our series of annual modern yacht rock summer mixtapes: As always, we’re expanding the yacht rock universe here to include more modern sounds inspired by those classic easy listening FM-gold guilty pleasures of the late '70s and early '80s, while occasionally veering off into balearica, pillowy soft funk, sophisti-pop, long-lost obscurities, exotica, and darker forms of hypnogogia. Listen/download + check the full tracklist below:
Genre-defying Glasgow duo and recent Scottish Album of the Year Award nominees Free Love (fka Happy Meals) just dropped a stellar double A-side single on their own label Full Ashram, featuring the absurdly infectious, bilingual acid-italo-disco-pop anthem "Pushing Too Hard", backed with the slightly darker and much trippier "July"...
Montreal's Helena Deland will grace us with two beautiful new volumes from her series of songs Altogether Unaccompanied this fall on our label Luminelle Recordings, and we're very psyched to share the release's magical lead single here today...
2018 has been such a bountiful year for incredible new music from favorites new and old that it's been almost impossible to keep up, but I'm doing my best...
We are beyond excited to announce our new endeavor Luminelle Recordings, a record label formed in collaboration with Fat Possum/House Arrest...
As the internet's collective attention span continues to dwindle away and the clickbait economy slowly ruins everything good, we made a conscious effort this year to spend more time listening to fewer things. Discovering new favorites will always remain a priority around here, but it felt good to devote more quality time to absorbing ambitious, flawed, elaborately nuanced and layered masterpieces like Dust, Quazarz, Party, and The OOZ. And the more immediate records that we fell in love with at first listen -- TOPS’ Sugar at the Gate, the super charismatic Carti mixtape, and Kelly Lee Owens’ enveloping debut full-length, to name a few -- felt more like all-time favorites with each spin. While anyone in our top 5 could have staked a legit Album of the Year claim depending on the day, we had to put the two EPs that announced the arrival of dance music's brightest new star in their rightful spot at the top of our list. Here are our favorite records of 2017:
Kate NV shares the latest in her series of wonderful illustrated "postcards" created for each track on her new album для FOR. Kate made the vibrant animated .gif seen above for the twinkling track "вас YOU", and it's teeming with a kind of whimsy and effervescent joy that perfectly captures the vibe of the whole album...
A wonderful slow vibe with long scenes of cooking beautiful food and storytelling. -- Still Corners
Lo-fi grainy old photos of beaches and people surfing, just can't get enough of them. Inspired us for our visuals and photographs. -- Still Corners
Great film. We went to the same beach - Leo Carrillo in California to film the scene in our video "Black Lagoon" where Tessa pulls up to the beach in the white convertible. -- Still Corners
"What we see is but a dream within a dream". A deeply atmospheric film. The theme song is glorious and on regular rotation here. -- Still Corners
I watched this with a friend again and he said it was boring and 0 out of 5 stars ha. I really like it, it's a slow meandering film with a dark feel to it so what's not to like. This is a period where things that I find inspiring are those things that take a bit of time and grow as opposed to walloping you over the head with the "idea"...
We've spent a lot of time at the Tate Modern staring at John Constable's landscape paintings. They're grand and beautiful and evoke a timelessness which directly inspired Slow Air.
The Seagram Murals also suggest a type of space that is unknown and unknowable...
A new series that we've fallen completely in love with. A clever and thoughtful show with lovely scenes of two guys roaming around the English countryside chatting, drinking tea and looking for treasure. The rhythm and subtlety of the show greatly influenced the vibe of Slow Air and how we sequenced the songs together. Opens with a beautiful folk song by Johnny Flynn, gorgeous. -- Still Corners
The wild, wild west. There's nothing like these photos of America, the vast sense of space they evoke is deep and beautiful, a direct inspiration for Slow Air. -- Still Corners
Restored in 4K defintion. We kept the beginning in mind while writing Slow Air, just re-playing that scene in our heads over and over. The older samurai falling asleep in a field. The younger sons cutting a few branches of bamboo to shade him from the hot sun and then quietly tip-toeing away to let him sleep. Visually stunning and peaceful. -- Still Corners
