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
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link
i discovered that the supermarket's music playlist switches to beach house if you go after 11pm
― ciderpress, Friday, 16 October 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
at least nyquil tastes pretty good?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 17 October 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
Definitely liking this new one more than DC, although I'm willing to keep trying with that one too
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm heartened to find that they still can write songs
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
"Rough" was the first one to get me from this album.
― calstars, Thursday, 22 October 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link
"She's so Lovely" is pretty good too
― calstars, Thursday, 22 October 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link
that elegy to the void song
― Treeship, Monday, 2 November 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
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.
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 5 November 2015 07:38 (eight years ago) link
depression cherry is excellent music for spring-cleaning to.
― lamonti, Sunday, 8 November 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
'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).
― KevRus, Sunday, 13 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
I had thought I was over Beach House but GOD DAMMIT I AM NOT OVER BEACH HOUSE. Both 2015 albums are magnificent.
― MatthewK, Thursday, 10 March 2016 11:37 (eight years ago) link
yep
they are both really fucking good
― the tune was space, Thursday, 10 March 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 10 March 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
Don't you disappear in the mirror againnnn
― Treeship, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Monday, 20 June 2016 04:10 (seven years ago) link
totally, a lot of their aesthetic comes straight from the Motels
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 20 June 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
Not really, just her voice.
― Austin, Monday, 20 June 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
noooooooo
― Treeship, Monday, 20 June 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 20 June 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― MatthewK, Monday, 20 June 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of which, have you heard Lera Lynn? Her aesthetic is 100% Lynch soundtrack, and there's definitely some crossover with Beach House.
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Monday, 20 June 2016 11:34 (seven years ago) link
Referring above to Lynn's current album Resistor. There's earlier work that's more trad Americana.
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Monday, 20 June 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
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?
― alpine static, Monday, 1 August 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Monday, 1 August 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
ask them about their development as a live band, because as i've noted previously, they're a really really good one these days.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 1 August 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
https://charlierose.com/video/player/28556
― KevRus, Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
xpost
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
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― KevRus, Saturday, 6 August 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah. They're just a lot less thoughtful than their music lets on.
― calstars, Saturday, 6 August 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 August 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
touché
― KevRus, Sunday, 7 August 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
geez
― j. winters (josh), Sunday, 7 August 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 August 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
why would anyone want more variety and surprise in the age of mass uncertainty and diversion?
― Treeship, Sunday, 7 August 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
neue jesse is right that you need to ask them about their name. also, i would be interested in hearing about their lyric writing process, specifically for the song "elegy to the void."
― Treeship, Sunday, 7 August 2016 05:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgR-PUXv98k
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 2 July 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
yussssss
― joshywinty (josh), Monday, 3 July 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Equal Mind is really something. These guys are damn prolific. One of those "samey" sounding bands I can't quite get bored with.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
They do one thing very well and that's about as much as you can ask of anything
this is gorgeous stuff
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 05:20 (six years ago) link
I've only heard bits of this so far but I've been listening to a lot of Beach House lately. I've always found it tough to rank their albums, but right now it would go something like this.
Bloom (the one that got me into them)Depression Cherry (didn't rate this at first, huge grower)Teen Dream Beach House Devotion (this one doesn't seem that essential to their back catalogue, more of a bridge between the first and third albums)Thank Your Lucky Stars (Majorette and The Traveller are the only ones I really love on here)
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
my personal ranking:
depression cherryteen dreambeach housedevotionthank your lucky starsbloom
note that this is all on a rating scale of like, 9.3-8.8
― joshywinty (josh), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
yea i love this band
― marcos, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
really happy to see all the DC love
beyond love is a beautiful track
and this album nails that anodyne vibe
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I think Bloom will always be my favourite but Depression Cherry is comfortably in second place now. It's one the biggest U-turns I've done on an album in recent years.
Finally got round to giving the compilation a listen. It is indeed great and probably a better listen than maybe three of their albums.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 6 July 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
my feeling is that depression cherry will age the best out of all their work so far
― joshywinty (josh), Thursday, 6 July 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link