''Creatures of an Hour'' is the debut studio album by

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Still Corners Still Corners are a British/American dream pop band formed in 2007 consisting of songwriter/producer Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray. History Murray met Hughes by chance at a train stop in London when the train was diverted to an alternat ...

, released 11 October 2011 by US label

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. The album received favorable reviews.

Track listing

All tracks written by Greg Hughes:

Reception

The music review website

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gave the album a score of 6.5 out of 10 and described it as "a cohesive statement of the band's nouvelle-vague-nodding retro-cool."

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, which uses a weighted average, assigned the album a score of 78 out of 100, based on 13 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

References

External links

Still Corners on Subpop.com

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