did you ever like or listen to beach house before this album, ilxor?
I'd previously heard the first album and a couple songs from Devotion. Pretty much thought "oh, this is nice, I'll keep an eye on this band in case they turn into something awesome down the line" and moved on to other things.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
You do have a point, though, maybe I've just never been the ideal fan of theirs. Though I've seen the hype around this new one and I try to give things a fair shake, regardless of past judgments, so...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
+ tacking on a random grizzly bear diss.
Also, not really a random diss -- I said the Beach House album specifically reminded me of Grizzly Bear if they were less orchestrated and had a female singer, and that both were not really bad/offensive but seemed musically neutered and boring, in one way or another.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This album reminds me of beautiful melodies that I heard elsewhere.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i wish grizzly bear sounded more like beach house, then i might actually not think they are rubbish
― victim of a vicious puma (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I prefer Beach House actually! "Take Care" and "Norway" are two songs I like more than anything by GB.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the songs usually have a good melody in there but--and i say this as a fan of much minimalist pop--they really don't have enough going on, melodically or texturally (sp?), to justify their lengths. the changes in texture are often predictable in a (don't hate me please) coldplay sort of way--ok, bass here, drums here, etc.
not that this is bad by any means, just predictable and a bit zzzz. and somehow less mysterious and odd than the first two records.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
they had a really fragile, very particular aesthetic going on and it was probably wrong to imagine that they could work variations on it endlessly. although maybe they'll put out a killer 4th record and surprise me.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the changes in texture are often predictable in a (don't hate me please) coldplay sort of way--ok, bass here, drums here, etc.
This is something like what I've been trying to say.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i really love 'teen dream' - and didn't care for the first two albums - but not for the 'melodies', more for the texture of the thing (the middle section of "real love" when the drone comes in and creates this odd suspension/tension between all the other elements in the song is probably my favorite moment on the whole album)
― i am a big fan of japanese women (donna rouge), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly if most of us (including myself most of the time) have this reflexive blinkered indie/mainstream dichotomy, there's really a similarity between how these guys and coldplay build simple melodies and sustain (some) interest via measured shifts in instrumental texture. i say that not solely to criticize one or the other band.
but i get the feeling that most people who like beach house would not be caught dead appreciating coldplay. i suppose coldplay's lyrics are a good enough reason for that.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
and yeah there are some nice moments of texture on this new LP but not enough of them IMO.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry that 1st sentence was garbled. try again:
"honestly if most of us (including myself most of the time) didn't have this reflexive blinkered indie/mainstream dichotomy, we'd recognize that there's really a similarity between how these guys and coldplay build simple melodies and sustain (some) interest via measured shifts in instrumental texture."
i don't see how you guys don't view this as a step up on the first two records--to me it's the exact same sound palette with a lot more depth.
that being said as long as their songs all pretty much work the exact same tempos while not really doing anything interesting rhythmically, they're not going to make a masterpiece, they're going to make nice records.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this new album, quite a bit. Not sure I'm going to love it forever. Also, great to see the Grizzly Bear abuse is being continued in multiple threads! way to go ILXOR---so funny they have become the whipping post when bon iver/fleet foxes are producing far more boring music and equally as "lauded"
― Emily's Cheese, Thursday, 18 February 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm probably more down on it than i would be if i weren't posting on this thread.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 18 February 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
??
Also, great to see the Grizzly Bear abuse is being continued in multiple threads! way to go ILXOR---so funny they have become the whipping post when bon iver/fleet foxes are producing far more boring music and equally as "lauded"
I'm not making Grizzly Bear into a whipping post, I just said this new Beach House album with its expanded sound palette reminds me of Grizzly Bear. I don't care for Bon Iver or Fleet Foxes either, but that's not the point because Beach House remind me of neither of those bands. If they did, then I'd have said so.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 18 February 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Way more tonal and rhythmic and dynamic variation in Grizzly Bear than in this.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 19 February 2010 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Beach House is on today's World Cafe
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Baltimore dreamers Beach House sound a whole lot different live than they do on record, especially when they’re working with their recently expanded live lineup. So even if you don’t like paying for the same songs twice, Beach House’s new iTunes Sessions EP might be worth checking out. For the EP, the band– in three-piece form– turned in reworked versions of five old songs, as well as one completely new one: “White Moon”.
Tracklist:
1. Walk in the Park2. White Moon3. Norway4. Silver Soul5. Gila6. Real Love
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone heard this?
haven't heard this, but I'm still loving Teen Dream, more than I thought I would
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
here is just the new song, it's nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yrgv9FB99c
― Bee OK, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, based on early listens (it just arrived on emusic), teen dream is a major step-up from the prior two full-length discs, in every possible way.
it's great.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know if i can ever listen to this record as i'm struggling to believe it can possibly live up to the spluttering hype it's getting everywhere
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:30 AM (6 months ago)
i listened to it and it doesn't, though it's still decent
― the mandelbrot cassette (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously came here to post how much i loved the guy's voice. i'm even more amazed now.
i'm so in love with "zebra". it's an utterly perfect thing.
― jed_, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish the rest of the album was as good as zebra
― max, Monday, 18 October 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
^
― sean gramophone, Monday, 18 October 2010 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
They were boring when I saw them open for Vampire Weekend.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 October 2010 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a really strange bill, beach-house and vampire-weekend.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 18 October 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Not really, I'd imagine tons of overlap between the fanbases of the two bands. Sonically, maybe a little, yeah.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Their sound is very pretty, but I could not imagine a set longer than the thirty minutes they played. Reminded me of Mazzy Star, all that twinkly melancholy.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I can imagine. When taken in very small doses of two or three songs, the band is lovely, but I have a real hard time with a full-length.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't have a hard time listening to the full album, and i enjoy all the tracks at least to some degree, but more often than not i find myself just playing 'zebra' or 'walk in the park' repeatedly
― only built 4 cuban linux (ciderpress), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
They've definitely got a template of sorts, but I find the newest album to be really solid from beginning to end.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 18 October 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
revisited teen dream today and for sure best album of 2010!!!
does anyone have TMZ type shit on the guy and girl in the band? are they like deep and transcendent lovers or something? they gotta be.
― oneohtrix point zero (fennel cartwright), Friday, 11 November 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
In an interview with this week’s NME, sepia-poppers Beach House get rather lavish about their forthcoming fourth album, Bloom.
According to Alex Scally, one half of the group, Bloom – co-produced by Chris Coady, who worked on the most recent albums by Cold Cave and Gang Gang Dance – will be “their own Pet Sounds or Disintegration, not in sound, but as something which feels like a definitive statement.”
“I could make the pop music I hear on the radio”, Scally continues. “Victoria [Legrand, Beach House vocalist] has a great voice – we could easily churn out a Rihanna hit. It would take about 15 minutes. And then she’d just have to wear no clothes and I’d have to get a tattoo or something or something, and then the next thing we’re huge for, like, five minutes. But if that was going to be our course, it would’ve happened a long time ago.”
― mizzell, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
though the new song via pitchfork today sounds exactly like a Teen Dream take, which is great.
― nostormo, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
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― mox twelve, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I pretty much missed this band in the flurry of bands named beach coast and best house and beast coach
getting around to the s/t now, and it's great - perfect for a week of sub-freezing weather and probable snow
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
I think i do get why some ppl bag on bloom, but I really love it, listened to it more than any other 12 release probly.
Need 2 check beast couch.
― it's nature that's unfair (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol beast couch, that's even better
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
hmm first track of Bloom sounds kind of like a scrambled Eyes Without A Face.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
Ha someone last summer posted ewaf video on bloom thread!
― it's nature that's unfair (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la172kVbXQI
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
LOL their own Pet Sounds.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Here's another band (like Tame Impala) who I wasn't ready to embrace but then two or three tracks from Bloom started worming their ways in and now I have to admit I like them a whole lot
― dog latin, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
I like it, too, but that quote upthread is hilarious. Sound like some pretty unlikeable people.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Beach House perform outside in their atmospheric short film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgD8vWIB8hs
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link