Beach House

BNM bomb

9.0

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13872-teen-dream/

i'm psyched to listen to this album, i fell deeply in love with them and spent months listening to devotion twice a day when i first heard it. it was a good couple of months. i didn't really give the debut due opportunity, but what i've heard from this one has blasted my expectations into the stratosphere.

I quite like this album; don't know any of their early stuff. Sort of halfway between Slowdive and Mojave 3.

Though the review is spot on, certainly not a 9.0 (yet another Pitchfork record store clerk overstatement). It is a lovely album, if a little epicene and inarticulate at times.

man i've always found this band pretty boring but the first four or so songs on the new one are fantastic. they seem to have grown a little bit of a spine. the second half seems less interesting but i've been listening to the album in order so maybe i'm just getting tired of their sound after a while.

"the second half seems less interesting"

10 Mles Stereo is one of the best songs on the record.

nah you agree with me

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..

― Zeno, Tuesday, January 5, 2010 6:13 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my wife thought this was a dude singer too btw

yeah i dont know why everyone was all up in my grill about that

The female singer sounds like late Joni Mitchell.

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 1, 2010 8:31 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought that said "THE late joni mitchell" and i did a dubz-take

great alb btw - my $0.02

i dunno im genuinely baffled by ppl that can't tell this is a woman! the timbre is unmistakably feminine imo

GET OUT OF MY GRILL

nah you agree with me

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..

― Zeno, Tuesday, January 5, 2010 6:13 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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i changed my mind a little after some more listening:
the 1st half is better, yeah, but the 2nd half also has some good moments, like 10 Miles Stereo, which is one of the best tracks on the record.

about the singer: she sounds like somewhere between Nico and the singer from The Walkmen

I'm a big fan of all the usual references for this band (Nico, Cocteaus, Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, Low, etc.) but can't seem to get into them to any huge degree. Just more of a "ho hum, this is kinda nice" reaction. What am I missing?

i think they are not dreamy/spaced out,and more direct,clear and rough than the acts youve mentioned.
so they fit somewhere inbetween those acts and more earthly stuff like Fleetwood Mac and The Walkmen

i like the fact that, as a final result, everything stays relatively simple and unpretentious on the record.

this album is just as good as devotion. a bit unremarkable but that's how they roll.

I'm a big fan of all the usual references for this band (Nico, Cocteaus, Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, Low, etc.) but can't seem to get into them to any huge degree. Just more of a "ho hum, this is kinda nice" reaction. What am I missing?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:23 PM (2 hours ago

you mean BESIDES A SOUL

Precisely.

this is a v. v. pretty album

zebra is AMAZING. def will be one of my favorite tracks of 2010. matt dc nailed it that stretching and rising feeling they give you on that track is something else. plus the fleetwood mac moves just seals it for me.

"certainly not a 9.0 (yet another Pitchfork record store clerk overstatement)."

ok, i admit thats more or less what i thought in the beginning,(good but not great) but this album is a much more "grower" thing than i thought.
and fuck it - the 2nd half is as good as the first.it just took a little time to realize it.
only "used to be" is skippable imo.

i hate that pitchfork record store

songs should all be a bit shorter imo

i don't think this album is better than its predecessor but they're both at least 9.0 albums to me. i feel like they're naturally embedded in their style they couldn't really ever make a bad song or album, even the most boring beach house song would still be lovely and warm, would feature her voice etc.

i hate that pitchfork record store

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Thursday, February 4, 2010 2:44 AM

my wife thought this was a dude singer too btw

Even after finding out the girl was the singer, I looked up the credits, thinking "well maybe the dude only sings lead on some of the songs"

u guys are weird

transvestite!

I'm a big fan of all the usual references for this band (Nico, Cocteaus, Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, Low, etc.) but can't seem to get into them to any huge degree. Just more of a "ho hum, this is kinda nice" reaction. What am I missing?

yeah, this is how I feel. i think they sound pretty good whenever they come on, but I'm never really swept away ... haven't heard the new one ...

I don't think this is quite as good as Devotion, but I fucking loved that record and I'm growing to fucking love this one too. It does need time though, the first three or four listens left me unimpressed. Now, "Silver Soul", "Walk In The Park", "10 Mile Stereo" and "Real Love" are knocking me sideways.

boring shit

Awwww... don't talk about yourself like that, Ian.

hey, is that ian zamboni of zamboni sdtks? that's a FUCKING GREAT blog, dude.

This is definitely a good argument for the beauty of content-free recordings.

What – ILM?

Ha! No, this record. It's not meant to be a zing, either. I feel like nothing happens on this record and it's perfect for it.

yeah, it's pretty basic and introverted for most of the time (with some nice nuances), a little MOR even,and i say that as a positive things.

owen otm

for me this album is just one big giant heart throb. the best moment is when she sings "i take care of you."

but "in a year or two"...

they're so good at ending songs with beautiful heartbreaking choruses that go on forever

like i said, songs go on too long

Beach House = sex

Even they think so...

“This record has a lot of sex in it and it has more balls"...

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/beach-house

Talk complete balls though...

beach balls

ball house

liked the fallon performance but wasn't sure about headbanging to a song without a beat