Beach House

Devotion would be my pick

Teen Dream would seemingly be the consensus pick. My personal fav as well.

Bloom is my favorite

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

bloom would also be a wonderful entry point

Bloom
7

And the new one would be what I’d recommend but they’re very consistent. Almost any album is a good starting point.

7 and Bloom also my favorites.
GAPDY? Do I even wanna know what that is

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

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

my starting point would be depression cherry, played loud

I'd say (omitting Once Twice Melody):

Teen Dream -> Bloom -> Depression Cherry -> 7 -> Beach House -> Devotion -> Thank Your Lucky Stars

wow I like it when there's a lot of different opinions on which is the best, sounds like a deep catalog

Just searched and Bloom won the poll

Best Beach House Album (So Far)

I just threw Thank Your Lucky Stars on to DEFY YOU and it’s BEAUTIFUL

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.

So the roll out for this and Big Thief are kinda similar.

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.

7 is their best by a fair way

Yeah devotion is more subdued but as mentioned it’s worth it for the journey to their later stuff

<i>I'd say (omitting Once Twice Melody):

Teen Dream -> Bloom -> Depression Cherry -> 7 -> Beach House -> Devotion -> Thank Your Lucky Stars

― 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

I'd say (omitting Once Twice Melody):

Teen Dream -> Bloom -> Depression Cherry -> 7 -> Beach House -> Devotion -> Thank Your Lucky Stars

― winters (josh), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:20 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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), Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:00 PM (0 seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry folks -- sleepy Mercury Retrograde brain *upside down smiling face emoji*

ahhh sorry for the misread!

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

extremely bee gees, as is the depression cherry artwork

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.

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.

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.

still waiting for my copy to arrive

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.

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.

this album is just too much at once, there's good material here but it doesn't justify the length at all

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.

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.

Well said

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.

same here. i tend to be disappointed in their latest in then a couple years later it's in my usual beach rotation

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"

Oops

over and over is fucking incredible

^^^^^^

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

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

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…

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

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.

visited a Barnes and Noble that was supposed to have it in stock, but they couldn't find it

Yeah, this seems to be par for the course. I've pretty much given up buying music there. The last time I went was to pick up Neil Young's latest which, three weeks after release day, was still sitting in a box in the back that they had to dig out. Can't tell you how many times prior to that I heard, "well it says we have it in stock, but I can't find it".

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)

that quote makes it sound better then it is. if you look at the Billboard Top 200 you can see Beach House is at number 12. when you factor in what is being streamed then it actually drops and they are talking about pure sales without streams. the only reason i know all this is because i was tracking Spoon's new album. it debuted at number 38 last week in the Top 200 but fell out of the Top 200 in the second week. Big Thief was number 31 in the Top 200 last week but also, surprisingly, fell out of the Billboard Top 200 this week as well. ILM couldn't keep it in there i see,

https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-west-posts-studio-photos-with-beach-house/amp/
Thought this was gross.