Album released 18/05/2009

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"Hushed, mechanised meditations illuminate the sonic firmament just enough for you to apprehend the size of the emotions that spawned them - resulting in an album whoose charms multiply with every listen" [The Times]

"An unassuming delight" [The Observer]

Produced by Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Little Joy), and recorded in various studios between Brooklyn, NY, and Los Angeles, CA, the result is their third album, entitled Still Night, Still Light, released on their own label, Our Secret Record Company. Although featuring songs written by all three ladies, the album has a tremendous thematic cohesion, as if composed by a singular voice. The collection of twelve songs sees our three keyboard-wielding heroines creating something that could only be called "elemental". Gone are the bells and whistles of The Bird of Music, and in their place is a stark closeness, as if hearing a secret from someone you love for the first time. It's a record that details reflection, seeking, questioning and losing one's place on the page while looking for the right way home. It has some of the band's most quiet moments (see the glacial grace of "The Last One") while also containing some of their most raucous (see the dizzying exuberance of "Anywhere You Looked"). Indeed, Still Night, Still Light is the band at their most exposed, relying mainly on their keyboards, drum machine, and effortless voices to create a folk record without folk instruments, humming with resilience and wonder.

Opener "Another Likely Story" dazzles with twinkling drones and fizzy synthetic hi-hats, while "Shadows," which follows it, has a frenetic Rhodes part following lyrics about escape. "Knight of Wands" shines with ebullient, warbling organs and a palpable sense of joy, "We Are Here" is meditative, anchored by a heartbeat-esque kick drum and a glowing background pulse, and "Tell Me" sees the girls experimenting with tempo shifts unlike ever before. And, despite the medium of mainly electronic instruments, the album simmers with an innate warmth; within these songs lies a circuitous current of energy that is gorgeously incandescent and instantly familiar.

• Another Likely Story
• Shadows
• All Or Nothing
• Knight of Wands
• The Last One
• Trace A Line
• Only You Can Make You Happy
• Take Me As I Am
• Anywhere You Looked
• Organized Scenery
• We Are Here
• Tell Me

• Another Likely Story
• Shadows
• All Or Nothing
• Knight of Wands
• The Last One
• Trace A Line
• Only You Can Make You Happy
• Take Me As I Am
• Anywhere You Looked
• Organized Scenery
• We Are Here
• Tell Me