Beach House

Way more tonal and rhythmic and dynamic variation in Grizzly Bear than in this.

Beach House is on today's World Cafe

Baltimore dreamers Beach House sound a whole lot different live than they do on record, especially when they’re working with their recently expanded live lineup. So even if you don’t like paying for the same songs twice, Beach House’s new iTunes Sessions EP might be worth checking out. For the EP, the band– in three-piece form– turned in reworked versions of five old songs, as well as one completely new one: “White Moon”.

Tracklist:

1. Walk in the Park
2. White Moon
3. Norway
4. Silver Soul
5. Gila
6. Real Love

has anyone heard this?

haven't heard this, but I'm still loving Teen Dream, more than I thought I would

here is just the new song, it's nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yrgv9FB99c

wow, based on early listens (it just arrived on emusic), teen dream is a major step-up from the prior two full-length discs, in every possible way.

it's great.

i don't know if i can ever listen to this record as i'm struggling to believe it can possibly live up to the spluttering hype it's getting everywhere

― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:30 AM (6 months ago)

i listened to it and it doesn't, though it's still decent

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.

i wish the rest of the album was as good as zebra

^

They were boring when I saw them open for Vampire Weekend.

that's a really strange bill, beach-house and vampire-weekend.

Not really, I'd imagine tons of overlap between the fanbases of the two bands. Sonically, maybe a little, yeah.

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.

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.

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

They've definitely got a template of sorts, but I find the newest album to be really solid from beginning to end.

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.

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.”

though the new song via pitchfork today sounds exactly like a Teen Dream take, which is great.

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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