Beach House

Somehow this song is just...weak. It's got a really unfinished, tossed off feel to my ears.

really digging this album!!!!

all the press i've read about them says that the lead singer has classical training. is this true? (it's a canard of music journalism and often it turns out to only be half-true.)

if it is true, it's quite amazing that she sings the way she does, with that deliberately low-affect voice, staying comfortably in a mid-range. she never betrays any "singerly" mannerisms at all.

so what directors contributed to the DVD?

The new albums is v.v pretty btw.

The constant sense of stretching and rising in 'Zebra' is incredible.

zebra is the highlight for me

reminds me a lot of fleet foxes?? i dont know this kind of music very well but i get a kind of "shoegaze fleet foxes" vibe

yeah that's EXACTLY the vibe i got, which sort of bugged me but i find this a lot more tolerable than FF

It's not really very Fleet Foxes, although it reminded me of the Radio Dept a lot.

so... youre saying kevin and i are wrong?

i'm hoping you're wrong, because i like beach house and can't stand fleet foxes ;_;

its less the music than the soft production & the vocals

I've only heard a couple songs but I definitely got a Fleetwood Mac vibe on one of them. Don't think it's Fleet Foxy at all, but there is a 70s thing happening.

what max said

so so pretty and deliberate, really dig the pacing of the album. otm 'bout the 70s thing, with the organ etc.

but it doesn't sound old

fuck this is beautiful

The vocals don't sound anything like Fleet Foxes! There are hardly any harmonies for one, and the singer is, like, female.

yeah i fair dislike fleet foxes but this is hella good. don't really think it should be made as a point of comparison

I don't think "comparison" is the word. They're doing different things...the vocal timbre is just similar is all

I got sad when a stream of 'used to be' disappeared from the internet. Will grab this when I get home.

the singer is female but she sounds like a dude

only occasionally, but v much on 'Norway'

definitely assumed it was a dude until i saw this thread

don't understand that at all! husky voice, but very feminine.

I made the same mistake all the way up until I saw them live on the last album. Like, I knew there was one guy and one girl in the band, but when I showed up I was surprised to see the guy barely uttered a peep, if at all.

best album of 2010. ;-)

It's kinda ridiculous that I already have two favourite albums of 2010.

silver soul is the highlight on this album.

but that'll change soon i reck; so many standouts.

Best album of next decade (so far).

Really looking forward to this. Saw them @ teh Orange Show last March, and they played some of the new stuff, which sounded great. Nice folks too.

The female singer sounds like late Joni Mitchell.

must admit this album grows dull about halfway through. songs are too long.

still love the drum machine, though.

pretty and nicely simple album indeed,sounds very 90's (like a more roughly red house painters,low,tram,mazzy star etc..)

though maybe it is getting a little dull halfway through..

Agreed on the back half being relatively weak. I noticed that a few weeks ago and made a bit of an effort to pay more attention to the songs near the end, but none of them really stick for some reason.

I mainly just listen to the first two tracks now. The other two Beach House albums are like that for me, too: 2-3 songs that I like a lot, and then a bunch that I find a bit bland.

first track is the best by a long shot and colored my initial impressions i think

yeah. and the version of "used to be" on the album seems slightly inferior to the version released as a single a while ago.

this album fucking ripsssss.

"walk in the park" is particularly lovely, and i actually like the new "used to be" better.

I think Norway is the worst thing on here - surprised it turned out to be the single, and I really like the end second, but nothing on here comes even close to touching Zebra.

Also there's one track whose name escapes me with an intro that I keep expecting to turn into Neon Lights.

beyotch hizzouse

Whoever said Fleetwood Mac'y was totally right, especially on "Lover of Mine."

teen cream dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKE4xoN7f5o

I really wanted to like Teen Dreams. But like the other 2 albums I keep wanting more from there sound. I even watched Jimmy Fallon to see them, and was left wanting more. I think Hope Sandoval fills my need for this kind of music. Maybe it's not fair to compare the two, but Through The Devil Softly has me full on dreamy sleepy music of this kind.

This album is amazing

vocals remind me of the Walkmen more than anything else.

vocals remind me of the Walkmen more than anything else.

That would actually be a pretty wonderful duet. Either singer guesting on the other's record would be okay with me.

At first I thought there was a choir of ghosts behind them.