Creatures of an Hour

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Creatures of an Hour
Creatures of an Hour album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released11 October 2011
Genre
Length31:50
Label Sub Pop
Producer Greg Hughes
Still Corners chronology
Remember Pepper?
(2007)
Creatures of an Hour
(2011)
Strange Pleasures
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork (6.5/10) "Pitchfork review". Pitchfork .
NME (8/10) "NME review". NME . 7 October 2011.
Drowned in Sound (8/10) "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
musicOMH (9/10) "music OMH review". 9 October 2011.
Clash (8/10) "Clash review". 27 September 2011.

Creatures of an Hour is the debut studio album by London-based dream pop band Still Corners, released 11 October 2011 by US label Sub Pop. [1] The album received favorable reviews. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Greg Hughes:

No.TitleLength
1."Cuckoo"3:09
2."Circulars"2:05
3."Endless Summer"3:17
4."Into the Trees"4:00
5."The White Season"2:53
6."I Wrote in Blood"4:10
7."The Twilight Hour"3:33
8."Velveteen"2:37
9."Demons"2:14
10."Submarine"4:07

Reception

The music review website Pitchfork 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." [3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the album a score of 78 out of 100, based on 13 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [4]

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References

  1. "Sub Pop Records : Still Corners : Creatures of an Hour". www.subpop.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2011.
  2. "Creatures of an Hour Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  3. Zoladz, Lindsay (20 October 2011). "Creatures of an Hour". Pitchfork. Conde Nast. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  4. "Creatures of an Hour by Still Corners". Metacritic. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2023.