Beach House

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

Her voice at 5:35...wow

HAH. clearly the wrong video. oops. let's try that again.

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

5:35 tho

http://pitchfork.com/news/61531-beach-house-releasing-new-album-thank-your-lucky-stars-next-week/

Well, there's a surprise. I hope it's good. I've been struggling to get into Depression Cherry. It feels a bit half-asssed after Bloom.

such an awesome move. bought the bundle, listening to DC in full for the first time now

"10:37" is a perfect song, though I find the "House Made of Dawn" reference confusing. Not the only spot on the album where they borrow a book title for imagery.

thank you lucky stars for "elegy to the void"

yeah that song stopped me in my tracks this morning

opening track is killer too

is this album a glass of Ny-Quil like the last?

you say that like nyquil is a bad thing

when I'm sick

is this album a glass of Ny-Quil like the last?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:29 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn that's cold

i discovered that the supermarket's music playlist switches to beach house if you go after 11pm

at least nyquil tastes pretty good?

Definitely liking this new one more than DC, although I'm willing to keep trying with that one too

I'm heartened to find that they still can write songs

"Rough" was the first one to get me from this album.

"She's so Lovely" is pretty good too

that elegy to the void song

I like Space Song more than anything since their first album, holy god. what a debilitatingly pretty song; listening to it for the first time was like rounding a corner and suddenly seeing a shovel coming rapidly towards my face (but in a good way). Somewhere Tonight and She's So Lovely are goddamn delightful as well.

also one reference point I can't shake with their 2015 albums is LITA's resurrection of Lewis last year - i.e. all of a sudden there's a whole new album full of the same general aesthetic (except it plays totally differently) while you're still waiting.

depression cherry is excellent music for spring-cleaning to.

'elegy to the void' closed out their set in LA last night, and wow.

i'm really liking how a lot of their recent cuts, from depression cherry and tyls, seem to be a lot more jammy and sort of trance-influenced. PPP and 'Elegy,' for example, seem quite different from the more 'pop' structure of their previous work, especially teen dream & bloom (RE: everyone who thinks their sound is too consistent and boring).

I had thought I was over Beach House but GOD DAMMIT I AM NOT OVER BEACH HOUSE. Both 2015 albums are magnificent.

yep

they are both really fucking good

I saw them live last night in Montréal. They were wonderful. I had no idea her voice would be that good. I love their songs, their arrangements and their melodies, but Victoria's voice was the star of the show.

Don't you disappear in the mirror againnnn

I've been racking my brain all week trying to figure out who Victoria Legrand sounds like and now I'm a little disappointed to finally figure out that it's Martha Davis from the Motels. Hrmph.

totally, a lot of their aesthetic comes straight from the Motels

Not really, just her voice.

noooooooo

i do not really hear it

it's there, you just need to open your heart. Suddenly Last Summer could easily be a Beach House jam.

There is a mournful catch in Legrand's more emotive lines which sounds like Davis (and that catch was pretty much the entire appeal of the Motels for me). But Legrand brings a lot more to the table. At times I think of them as Cocteau Twins doing a David Lynch soundtrack.

Speaking of which, have you heard Lera Lynn? Her aesthetic is 100% Lynch soundtrack, and there's definitely some crossover with Beach House.

Referring above to Lynn's current album Resistor. There's earlier work that's more trad Americana.

interviewing this band in a couple weeks and i have zero idea what to ask them. they're the greatest boring / most boring great band on the planet, right? what do you ask a band that has written and recorded one glorious song dozens of times over a decade or so?

Speaking as a relative newcomer to their music, the things that I'd be most interested in hearing about would be their beginnings, what they consider to be their biggest influences and what prompted them to release two separate albums pretty much back to back last year.

ask them about their development as a live band, because as i've noted previously, they're a really really good one these days.

I'm curious about the name. Wikipedia says the name "just seemed perfect" to them, but the associations of protected privilege threatened by climate change seem almost implicit. (A lot of the music conveys this sense of waiting to be inevitably overcome by something; they recorded their last two albums in Louisiana.) So, I dunno, you might ask them what their experience with beach houses was, as actual places or as images, before settling upon the name? Maybe they get asked that all the time.

https://charlierose.com/video/player/28556

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ask them about the obvious difficulties that come from their name being mixed up with "beech house"

i haven't watched the charlie rose interview so it's possible he may have already asked them about it

That is one boring interview. Rose throws out what you would expect and the responses are just typical collegiate artistic drivel. Better to just put their music on.

agreed that the responses were boring, but I thought Rose did try to push them - asking pointed questions about the creative process and getting fluffy answers.

but the thing is, I think their responses are the honest truth. i don't think their sound could come out of an intentional, deliberate method of songwriting.

Yeah. They're just a lot less thoughtful than their music lets on.

Which is cool! Their music is great!

You can ask if their aesthetic is so set that if they came up with something different and cool they discard it as being off-form. You could ask them if they think of louder faster songs as a sell-out move, or just something to keep in their back pocket if they ever hit a wall. You could ask about the attentiveness of audiences as they've gained more and more fans, or newer fans. You could ask them if beauty in and of itself is enough, and you could ask them if that is super cynical to even ask. You could ask them how Low has managed to release album after album of mostly slow, mostly great stuff that has showed significant evolution without losing its innate Low-ness, though that question might be better suited to Low.

touché

geez

Haha, the last one was a joke, but I was serious about the other ones! I like Beach House fine, and some of their stuff is really pretty.

why would anyone want more variety and surprise in the age of mass uncertainty and diversion?