{"id":9411,"date":"2012-07-02T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:55:31","slug":"new-noise-still-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/07\/02\/new-noise-still-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NOISE: Still Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snapped up by Sub Pop on the strength of just one single, Still Corners\u2019 dark synth-laden pop is definitely going places. Wonderland<\/em> catch up with Greg Hughes, the man who started it all, ahead of next Monday’s gig at Dalston Roof Park. <\/p>\n

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You guys are sometimes classed as a shoegaze band \u2013 do you think that\u2019s accurate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it is! I like Mazzy Star quite a bit but I don\u2019t listen to much other shoegaze. I always thought of us as dreamy pop music. There\u2019s some of Phil Spector, it\u2019s kind of folky\u2026 I always think of shoegaze as having washes of guitar, but here isn\u2019t really a ton of electric guitar on our record. I was always a more mellow pop guy. I listen to our album now and I think, “Wow, that\u2019s quite down tempo.”<\/p>\n

We hear you met lead singer Tessa in an unconventional way\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

It took a while to find a singer. I was on a train going to London Bridge, but it passed that station and went to another station called Kidbrooke, which was in Greenwich. I was like, \u201cWhat the hell!?\u201d, got off the train and was standing there. Then this other person got off and she came up to me and said, \u201cDid you think this was going to London Bridge? I just spoke to one of the conductors and he said it was mislabelled.\u201d We started chatting, and that was Tessa! She said she was going to miss choir and I was like, \u201cOh, okay\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n

You did your first US tour last year. How was that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The drives are crazy! We did this one drive fom Minneapolis to Vancouver which was thirty hours. After you\u2019ve been on the road for three days for twelve hours each, you get white line fever \u2013 you watch all these straight lines on the road for twelve hours. It\u2019s kind of psychedelic, actually.<\/p>\n

There was a huge amount of hype around you before your debut album. Did you ever feel the pressure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part of me doesn\u2019t actually care that much! I\u2019m gonna do what I\u2019m gonna do. You can only create what\u2019s inside you and hope that people like it. <\/p>\n

What are you listening to right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I saw this movie called Manhunter recently, it\u2019s the first of the Silence of the Lambs movies but no-one\u2019s ever heard of it. It got released in \u201886 and it has an amazing soundtrack. I watched that film 8 months ago, and ever since then I\u2019ve been listening to Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, stuff like that. <\/p>\n