Like Porches' "Car", Still Corners' "The Trip" explores the promise of travel and the desire to escape. "The Trip" is more one-dimensional, however, choosing to focus solely on the promises offered by the journey - rather than what is being left behind or what awaits the traveller at his or her destination.
The track opens the London dream-pop duo's second album Strange Pleasures (2013), which, as POPMatters' Cole Waterman notes, offers sonic delights that are not really odd, bizarre or eccentric in their appeal: "The most baffling incongruity of the record is its name, for there is nothing strange about the pleasures it offers; they are of the most immediate and rewarding variety".
With steady acoustic strumming by multi-instrumentalist Greg Hughes, a rhythm engineered for smooth cruising on open highways and Tessa Murray’s breathy vocals and cooing, the song amounts to an ethereal, melodic and lush dream-pop record. It may not do much to shake up the genre, but you will find it difficult to find a better sonic embodiment of wistful wanderlust:
'Time has come to goPack your bags, hit the open roadOur hearts just won't dieIt's the trip, keeps us aliveSo many milesSo many milesSo many milesAwayThey're following some dance of lightTearing into the nightWatching you fall asleepThe sweetest dove in a dreamSo many milesSo many milesSo many milesAway'
