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
they come across as massively earnest arseholes in interviews and i get why people think they're boring but i think this band is pretty good
most recent record is my favourite. on teen dream the songs seem too long - bloom is like a more revitalised version of that album. also sounds a lot more like the cocteau twins than anything else they've previously done which is obviously ++++
i also really like the s/t and its quiet intimacy.
― monotony, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
Saw them at FYF over the weekend and dug them. I like how they inhabit their own space live (kinda like how the Cocteau Twins do). Was mostly meh about the albums, but would go see them again.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 05:02 (ten years ago) link
Enjoyed the new songs at the show tonight, I think they were 3 of them. Nothing innovative, a little more streamlined and direct than usual.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
once i had a girlfriend and we were on a long drive and i played walk in the park. when it ended she said, cautiously and seemingly embarrassed -- for me, not for her -- that she didn't really like the band beach house. she clarified: "i dislike them."
still one of the worst opinions i've ever heard.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
so much for that relationship
― octobeard, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
o.g. 'methinks'
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
feel like my feelings about this band are the opposite of everyone else's, i like the first two albums, "devotion" is my favorite, i don't care about the rest
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
i like beach house but i don't quite get into as much as i feel like i should or w/e. i saw them open for the clientele right after their first album came out and i thought they were good but i forgot they existed til the next album, probs bc the clientele was so good that night.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I love the s/t more than anything they've done since, but I admit that my love for the first record is probably because of that feeling of "potential energy" that it contains, of unrealized potential. "Teen Dream" makes me angry when I'm in a bad mood because of how safe it plays, and I've had moments when it's on in at a coffee shop when it makes me feel depressed that people want such safe and pretty music in their lives. At the same time I've slow-danced at weddings to "10 Mile Stereo" and had endorphin rushes for miles so who knows. Probably issues with dream pop in general
― Life is full of shopportunities (fgti), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Beach House was the ultimate "ooh, what's this?!" band whenever I heard someone else playing them, but once I had the albums myself I hardly ever intentionally listened to them.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Beach House is okay if someone else is listening to them, but I'm not likely to put them on myself.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Ha. Exactly.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
yea xp tp fgti when devotion came out everybody talked about how good it was but that it still didn't "match their potential." people liked the record but were more eager to see what they would do in the future.
agree that teen dream and bloom are boring records. but yea lol when i hear them in the background i think "yea this is good" but i am never motivated to listen to those two records
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
they played a secret show here in bmore a couple months back of all new material, it was all good, nothing new, but i'm not a super fan. i don't think they ever expected or wanted to become as big as they did, and frankly they seem a bit bummed out/confused/paralyzed by it...
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
it makes me feel depressed that people want such safe and pretty music in their lives.
"take care" is pretty dangerous if you are in a situation where you don't want to start crying
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
i agree that all their songs are very similar but it's not something i resent. "reliable" is the word i'd use. has anyone seen this? it suggests you can run a "beach house" filter over any song and come up with predictable results....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iLeYUKCqhUc
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
let me try again
?
― Treeship, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
i know y'all don't care much about beach house but NEW ALBUM
http://pitchfork.com/news/57120-beach-house-announce-new-album-depression-cherry-and-world-tour/
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes, the sleeve for the LP and CD (pictured above) are made of actual red velvet.
http://i.imgur.com/42GB5ZP.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Ha! I just made a post to that effect on fb.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
New song:
consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/beach-house-premieres-new-song-sparks-listen/
― monster_xero, Thursday, 2 July 2015 05:51 (eight years ago) link
I think it's the best song they ever made.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
a little heavy on the MBV imo
― marcos, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
it is good though, i kind of lost interest in this band after the first couple albums despite their critical rise
― marcos, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link