Beach House

love when the drums kick in on dive.

Guitar part on dive really brings to mind temptation by new order for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eBDrE25ec

hell yeah that's good

cover art for this album is amazing

stupid how many people seem upset on RYM that it's called "7" - it's their seventh record...

well RYM feels like the seventh circle of hell so that makes sense to me

lol man

i am excited about this album

yeah, everything i've heard has sounded great! i'm holding off until the rest of it is released

listening to depression cherry right now, there are so many beautiful moments on this record especially "days of candy" solo that starts at 2:57 ~~~ whoooooohhhh~~~

Beyond love ruins me

Beach House - 7 (2018)

Thanks bee OK

Teen Dream turns 10 today.

I probably haven't listened to Beach House in a couple of years (time flies), but put on "7" and "Teen Dream" just now and it's all so almost unbearably pretty.

Music is all about FEELINGS man and the stuff that hits me the hardest I don’t want to stumble upon or listen to while I’m frying an egg or emptying the trash

Wrong thread
Anyway yeah I was wondering what they’re up to ...

Frying eggs, obv.

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Hit You in the Feels

Anyway yeah I was wondering what they’re up to ...

3 years since 7 came out. *drums fingers on table*

I want to say they might be working with ... Lanois?

Quarantine Dream

IIRC they scored an installation, but yeah I'd like a new record too.

Music is all about FEELINGS man and the stuff that hits me the hardest I don’t want to stumble upon or listen to while I’m frying an egg or emptying the trash

they posted this to their IG acct last week:

https://imgur.com/a/EQ6hn26

they're my all-time favorite band, so I follow them very closely. on a podcast appearance, Victoria mentioned that they were already working on new music before the pandemic hit, and the pandemic just caused them to keep working on more music, not knowing when they'll stop. it'll continue to move towards a sonically cinematic realm in the way that the past albums have but in a more explicit way like 7. they've also hinted that they're interested in touring less(?) and making/releasing music more. so we may be coming into an embarrassment of riches when the time comes!

whoops -- did the image link wrong

basically, a fan commented on their latest IG post asking about a new album, and they responded saying they're currently working on it!

https://i.imgur.com/rW7G01J.jpeg

they've also hinted that they're interested in touring less(?) and making/releasing music more. so we may be coming into an embarrassment of riches when the time comes!

― winters (josh), Friday, September 10, 2021 8:30 PM (yesterday)
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shame about the touring since I always enjoy seeing them live....I have noticed on the last few albums that Victoria's not singing as forcefully as she used to - definitely noticed it in the live shows too. so one reason for them touring less would be to relieve the strain on her having to perform multiple nights in a row. whatever form they appear, it's gonna be great though, they can't seem to make a bad record.

https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/2021/11/08/beachhouse-oncetwicemelody-art.jpeg

from Sub Pop's website:

"ONCE TWICE MELODY is the 8th studio album by BEACH HOUSE, who formed in 2004.

ONCE TWICE MELODY is a 2xLP, featuring 18 songs and presented in 4 chapters.

BEACH HOUSE is VICTORIA LEGRAND, lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, and ALEX SCALLY, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. They write all of their songs together.

OTM was Produced entirely by BEACH HOUSE, a first for the band. Like their previous record 7, the live drums are by JAMES BARONE. Live drums were recorded at PACHYDERM studio in Minnesota and UNITED Studio in LA.

The Writing and Recording of ONCE TWICE MELODY began in 2018 and was completed in JULY 2021. Most of the songs were created during this time, though a few date back over the previous 10 years. Much of this recording was done at APPLE ORCHARD STUDIO in Baltimore.

ONCE TWICE MELODY was mixed largely by ALAN MOULDER, but a few tracks were also mixed by CAESAR EDMUNDS, TREVOR SPENCER, and DAVE FRIDMANN.

For the first time, a live STRING ENSEMBLE was used. Strings were arranged by DAVID CAMPBELL

Across the 18 Songs, many types of STYLE, SONG STRUCTURE, and SPIRIT can be heard; Songs WITHOUT drums, Songs centered around ACOUSTIC guitar, mostly ELECTRONIC Songs with no guitar, wandering melodies, repetitive melodies, Songs built around the STRING SECTIONS. While there are a lot of new sounds, many of the drum machines, organs, keyboards, and tones that listeners may associate with previous BEACH HOUSE records are still present throughout many of the compositions."

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there are also tour dates all over the world from Feb - July 2022!!!!

Excited about this but not really sold on the idea of it appearing in four installments over the next few month.

I get the sense that it’s partially integral to the experience of the album and partially to have control over the release of the album as they've publicly expressed frustration over how all their records have been leaked waaaay early on

albums released on sub pop are about the only ones that still do leak months in advance

What’s with the CAPS

that’s a GOOD question

i'm looking forward to this because 7 was their best by quite a margin

Is there a RELEASE DATE?

the full physical album will be released on Feb 18th which is when the last chapter will be released on streaming

the four parts are being released on nov 10, dec 8, jan 19, and then feb 18

OTM

Nov 10? That’s tomorrow (tomorrow…tomorrow…tomorrow)

https://i.imgur.com/dLxy08W.png

excited for this but on the other hand i hated it when hayley williams adopted almost precisely this same release strategy for her album last year - i might just listen to the first part and then wait for the rest in february

i think the hayley williams album was particularly unsuited to that release strategy because its sequencing was so chaotic. i think bill callahan did something similar recently and it wasn't as bad

OTM

― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland)

OTM

definitely sounds like beach house, just with some string arrangements

second track reminds me of chromatics, a little synthpoppier than usual with that bassline

but after hearing these i'm not really sure i can tolerate a beach house double album (or quadruple ep as it's being presented), even when they're at their best it's not really like i want 90 minutes of what they do

I’d say Thank Your Lucky Stars / Depression Cherry was their best, and about that long in total

based on the first song, it does seem that they have taken the rapid chord changes of "Dark Spring" (first time I heard that it knocked me on my ass) as at least a frequent if not encompassing stylistic template, after the previous records uniformly used a more glacial framework…ohmigod, this second song! I am so fucking there for this…

i'd gladly take a monthly quadruple album from this band

^^^^^^^^^

seriously who complains about too much music from a band as good as this

"Superstar" is awesome