Beach House

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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

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.

lol beast couch, that's even better

hmm first track of Bloom sounds kind of like a scrambled Eyes Without A Face.

Ha someone last summer posted ewaf video on bloom thread!

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la172kVbXQI

LOL their own Pet Sounds.

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

I like it, too, but that quote upthread is hilarious. Sound like some pretty unlikeable people.

Beach House perform outside in their atmospheric short film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgD8vWIB8hs

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.

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.

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.

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.

so much for that relationship

o.g. 'methinks'

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

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.

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

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.

Beach House is okay if someone else is listening to them, but I'm not likely to put them on myself.

lol

Ha. Exactly.

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

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...

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

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

let me try again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iLeYUKCqhUc

?

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/

Yes, the sleeve for the LP and CD (pictured above) are made of actual red velvet.

http://i.imgur.com/42GB5ZP.jpg

Ha! I just made a post to that effect on fb.

New song:

consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/beach-house-premieres-new-song-sparks-listen/

I think it's the best song they ever made.

a little heavy on the MBV imo

it is good though, i kind of lost interest in this band after the first couple albums despite their critical rise

ahh yea it is a beautiful song actually

this album needs its own thread...

i love it

Reminds me that I forgot to listen to the last album.

the last album was really good, check it out

well it leaked. thoughts so far? happy that there's more variety for sure.

feel free to message me for a link (it's not hq though)

space song is really doing it for me

OH MY GODDDDDDD GUYSSSSSSS

DEPRESSION CHERRYYYYYYY

i'm really not trying to exaggerate here when i say that DEPRESSION CHERRY might just be the greatest music i've ever listened to in my life

at first the second half of PPP seems a bit overwrought but then i ease into it and it feels juuuust right.

such a strong 70s vibe from this one

a little heavy on the MBV imo

this does not compute

They took a big step forward on "Bloom" by going full-on Cocteau Twins at times, things can only get more awesome by adding MBV to the mix.