I like Beach House but can't be fucked with this chapters thing, I'll just listen to it when they finish eking it out
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Sunday, 23 January 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
“Masquerade” is the goth new wave banger I didn’t know I wanted them to make.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
hey - i've always liked what i heard from this band, listened to a few things here and there but i guess i was kinda tuned out for a while and associated them with the GAPDY era pitchfork, etc etc
what's the best place to start?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
Devotion would be my pick
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Teen Dream would seemingly be the consensus pick. My personal fav as well.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
Bloom is my favorite
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
it's an interesting question, where to start. because for those first two albums, s/t and devotion, they were kind of lo-fi in terms of their sound. that's part of why the expanded sound of teen dream hit so awesomely and felt kind of sensorial.
i wonder if depression cherry would be a weird place to start?
there's no wrong place to start, really
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
bloom would also be a wonderful entry point
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
Bloom7
And the new one would be what I’d recommend but they’re very consistent. Almost any album is a good starting point.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
7 and Bloom also my favorites. GAPDY? Do I even wanna know what that is
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
Listened to the new songs twice and nothing has grabbed me. So far def prefer 7 to this. Still good stuff tho!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger),
same
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
7 and Bloom also my favorites.GAPDY? Do I even wanna know what that is
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:26 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
ha it's a whiney coined acronym, i was using it more for shorthand for a certain period of indie rock
GAPDY poll
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
my starting point would be depression cherry, played loud
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
I'd say (omitting Once Twice Melody):
Teen Dream -> Bloom -> Depression Cherry -> 7 -> Beach House -> Devotion -> Thank Your Lucky Stars
― winters (josh), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
wow I like it when there's a lot of different opinions on which is the best, sounds like a deep catalog
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Just searched and Bloom won the poll
Best Beach House Album (So Far)
― Indexed, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
I just threw Thank Your Lucky Stars on to DEFY YOU and it’s BEAUTIFUL
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars are my faves. Considered them a bit of a guilty pleasure for the epic coffeehouse sulk of "Walk in the Park" but stopped feeling guilty and just submitted with those two albums.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
So the roll out for this and Big Thief are kinda similar.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
First album's really not that great. Devotion is pretty good and "Gila" is all-time, but by now that album is deep in the shadow of the subsequent albums. It's worth starting there only to see them evolve into something much fuller soon after that. But if you're just looking to start with where truly they hit their stride, you could just start with Teen Dream and then go chronologically from there. The run from Teen Dream > Bloom > Depression Cherry is pretty stellar.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
7 is their best by a fair way
― ufo, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
Yeah devotion is more subdued but as mentioned it’s worth it for the journey to their later stuff
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
<i>I'd say (omitting Once Twice Melody):
― winters (josh), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:20 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink</i>
my order here has to do with 1) chronological order of their more "major" works (the first 4 in the above sequence), then 2) chronological order of their more "minor" works (the last 3). by no means does it suggest any hierarchical view I have of the quality of their output
― winters (josh), Thursday, 27 January 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link
― winters (josh), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:20 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― winters (josh), Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:00 PM (0 seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
― winters (josh), Thursday, 27 January 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
sorry folks -- sleepy Mercury Retrograde brain *upside down smiling face emoji*
― winters (josh), Thursday, 27 January 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
ahhh sorry for the misread!
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 27 January 2022 03:32 (two years ago) link
It’s here! And it’s one of the most gorgeous vinyl packages I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/tEcSHbcu52— kyle (@solace) February 17, 2022
My not so great attempt at an “unboxing” video pic.twitter.com/ViJQXs3ewP— kyle (@solace) February 17, 2022
― Indexed, Thursday, 17 February 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link
extremely bee gees, as is the depression cherry artwork
― dig your way out of the shit with a gold magic shovel! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 February 2022 04:03 (two years ago) link
not my thing at all, but when you're the mayor of fartin island you get used to being lonely
Digging into it in full now. I can’t help but contrast it to last week’s double album from Big Thief, which is so full of shifting styles and pacing even while always retaining its Big Thief-ness. Beach House on the other hand are going for a sustained 80-minute vibe. (n.b. I haven’t gotten all the way to the end yet.)
Neither approach is better nor worse.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 18 February 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 18 February 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Not a lot of activity on this thread now that it’s fully out. Is it just an anti-climax since folks have had enough time to acclimate to it?
I put off playing most of the EPs other than few cursory listens. Initial standouts for me are the title track, “Runaway” and “New Romance”. Still absorbing the back half.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
still waiting for my copy to arrive
― diamonddeva85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
It's funny how many of us praise Spoon for their foolish consistency yet I get quite bored with Beach House. I might absorb the new album with less resistance if it were 35 or 40 minutes long.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
Has there ever been an epically Long Beach House song? I feel like that could d happened on this album. Like if you really want us to settle into the vibe, give us one that really envelops.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 19 February 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
this album is just too much at once, there's good material here but it doesn't justify the length at all
― ufo, Sunday, 20 February 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
When Bloom came out I was disappointed because it seemed so similar to their previous albums and I wanted something wild and fresh from them. I'd listened to S/T, Devotion and Teen Dream dozens of times but couldn't get into Bloom. Then after Depression Cherry / TYLS I realized that Beach House is just really good at exactly what they do. From S/T to 7, it's incredible stuff, and to pull off such consistency in craft and execution, for 16+ years is extremely rare. I'm excited to get a full listen in on Once Twice Melody.
― ershe, Sunday, 20 February 2022 05:33 (two years ago) link
It is kinda their great strength and great weakness at once. There are times when this feels like a slog and other times when it’s just a perfectly sustained mood, and I think that perception has more to do with me in any given moment than it does the quality of any one song.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 20 February 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link
Well said
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 20 February 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
I'm digging the seasick swoon of "Modern Love Stories". Beach House LPs usually take about six months to embed themselves in my heart so I'm just rolling with it for now.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
same here. i tend to be disappointed in their latest in then a couple years later it's in my usual beach rotation
― dig your way out of the shit with a gold magic shovel! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 20 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
Maddens me when they pull that shit on black athletes because hello, they're the only ones with a platform. When it's some "average" citizen making the complaints the dismissal is just as quick but the rationale changes to "pfft they just want free shit"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 21 February 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
Oops
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 21 February 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
over and over is fucking incredible
― diamonddeva85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 24 February 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
^^^^^^
― winters (josh), Friday, 25 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
Beach House’s new album Once Twice Melody is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart this week, Billboard reports. Of the 20,300 copies the band sold in the first week, over 70% of those came from vinyl sales.
this makes me realize how out of touch i am with music and how it works, how it sells, the formats, the amounts, the band involved, absolutely everything
― the world's undisputed #1 fan of 'Spud Infinity' (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 07:36 (two years ago) link
this seems like a bizarro clip from a 1970s world where no one bought music (note: i love beach house etc etc, not ripping them)
just sign o the times etc
― the world's undisputed #1 fan of 'Spud Infinity' (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 07:37 (two years ago) link
what's so hard to understand, karl? the people that would be into this band would want to invest in a physical manifestation, as I did. I am somewhat surprised that enough people bought the record in enough numbers that it met that metric…but not that surprised…
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
not surprised at all that they're on top - i think that's great! i'm more just surprised that a #1 album in the US "only" sold ~20K copies in its first week. but i think my brain is still calibrated for 2000-era sales figures
― the world's undisputed #1 fan of 'Spud Infinity' (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
I wanted to have a day-of-purchase experience with the new album but wasn't in the vicinity of a proper record store that day. I wanted the CD and visited a Barnes and Noble that was supposed to have it in stock, but they couldn't find it; I ended up buying the standard black vinyl across the street at Target, who weren't stocking the CD.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link