Were Beach House to up roots and relocate to the West Coast, only to find themselves further perturbed by the heinously superficial Californian default MO, they'd doubtless wind up sounding like Los Angelino trio Boardwalk . The troop comprising Mike Edge, Amber Quintero and lead guitarist Alex Scally Mark Noseworthy may be yet to emerge from the looming shadow of the Baltimore duo, but with début track I'm To Blame they lay down some astonishingly solid foundations to build upon, with Quintero's spectral coo perfectly matched by whirring organ drones, rudimentary drum machine tones and dizzying guitar lines blearily awakening [...]
Today categorically has to be the low in an itself unspeakably dire week. You know the ones encrusted with an impenetrable crud during which little, to nothing works out alright? Yeah, this is one of those alright. But then occasionally, every now and again, something absolutely blinding permeates the gloom and that, right here and so too right now, comes from Maryland ensemble Mt. Royal . 'Baltimore City has become known for having a robust and diverse music scene', or so goes their blurb and though the city's musical outpour is doubtless robust, I sometimes set about wondering how diverse [...]
"You had the experience, and the knowledge" Gothenburg four-piece Great Hare woefully intone on What Went Wrong? and themselves a mélange of once revered indie conies, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were self-effacingly writing themselves off in singing as such. Though with its wilting guitar lines immediately evocative of those fabled tones for which Alex Scally is now so widely famed (here think Myth ) and its vocal an unassuming blend of Malkmus lethargy, Shout Out Louds' understated whimpering and Owen Wilson-esque self-deprecation, its four, forty-six make for a quietly accomplished statement of intent. Not that they've grand [...]
I precisely remember opening Beach House’s newest album Bloom in the back office of the radio station just when it came out. While flipping through the booklet I happened upon an image that I immediately recognized: a star illuminated upon the side of a mountain under the night sky. This star in question is located in the West Texas desert, in my hometown of El Paso. It was then I remembered a friend mentioning that the band had taken residency at Sonic Ranch, a world-class, live-in studio located in the outskirts of the city on an old pecan orchard. Now, [...]
Beach House returned after the success of 20102s 'Teen Dream' with an album that potentially surpasses its predecessor. The Baltimore duo are perpetually filed under the "dream pop" label but 'Bloom' not only showed that no one did it better in 2012 but, crucially, pushed the genre into new sonic landscapes. Victoria LeGrand and Alex [...]
Win our top 31 albums of 2012 ! (Read the original review ) Cascading melodies, ethereal atmospherics, and idyllic harmonies: Bloom is where grace and elegance abound without the dips into indulgence or the clamouring glamour to be heard. It’s a subtlety that Beach House have honed throughout the course of their career but on Bloom it’s heightened by a fluidity that seamlessly knit the record into a sinuous flow of bliss. Vocalist [...]
Baltimore, Maryland can do no wrong in my ears and though needless to say Victoria Legrand is the figurative big momma of the city's burgeoning dream-pop escapades, please do spare a thought for Mothersday . An all-male ensemble of three, the snowballing crescendoes with which the woozy bundle of anthemia that is Shoulder Soldier peaks form their first artistic endeavour to tumble on over from the East Coast: kept in line by martial snares and regimented further by bristly yodels, it's one that'll stick with us right through Mothering Sunday. And for those of you out there [...]
Were Baltimore's dreamiest of its innumerable dream popsters Beach House a colour, theirs would indubitably be a wash of alluring blue. To paraphrase Bloom : track 6, or Troublemaker, they surged out of the blue and into the redder hearts of many; no, most with previous LP Teen Dream and musically, in Bloom , they've maintained that oneiric sound that remains clearer than an azure sky . Clear, lucid, and above all irrefutably crystalline. Simplicity at play, almost. Maybe a baby blue. Live though, they can truly rasp if and when they [...]
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Buy Beach House 's album "Bloom" : Vinyl | MP3 | CD Beach House is on a short list of bands who have a distinctively beautiful sound of their own. They have been imitated by many bands who ultimately fall short of achieving the cavernous depths of Victoria Legrand ’s voice and the simple brevity of Alex Scally ’s musicianship. “Bloom” is Beach House ’s first release since 2010’s “Teen Dream” , which [...]
Comercialmente hablando, hay un antes y un después de Teen Dream en la carrera de Beach House . Y es que si bien el grupo nunca apostó por la ruta fácil para su entrega de 2010, sí supo conservar y expandir en ella sus mejores cualidades, al punto de que hasta el día de hoy es considerada por muchos como su mejor producción. La calidad de esta placa también les trajo una gran exposición en los medios, algo con lo que la banda, adoradora del misterio, no parece estar muy contenta, al menos de acuerdo con las primeras entrevistas [...]
Each track is an exploration into the aural world Beach House has painted for us, inviting us to take it all in and come visit for awhile.
Constructing upon the critical acclaim garnered by previous long-player Teen Dream may be one thing – and one that Bloom achieves with the unhurried ease of their finest output itself – although the Baltimore pairing comprising Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally have vocally established their intent to mature; to continue to mould that woozy signature sound. Like the barely legible yet perfectly smooth and somehow utterly beautiful scribble of a slowly fossilising being in the red-eyed throes of a mildly berserk hallucination, the very sound of Beach House has become an inimitable entity and [...]
The untouchable entity known as Beach House seems to be way too excited to wait until their actual launch date to release their album. Leaks are leaking, the streams are streaming and all other water analogies are making themselves known while audiophiles are drowning in their own excitement for the Baltimore-based band’s latest installment of the epic musical series that is their life. “Myth” and “Lizuli” have already received a wide acclaim and the rest of the album is a powerhouse of mellowed tunes that are a perfect fit for more than just a trip to the beach. [...]
If Beach House's donation to last weekend's largely hugely successful Record Store Day, Lazuli represented a slight detour from their sumptuous stargaze soundtracking then its flipside, Equal Mind sees the duo back on the tracks of soaring melodrama: Alex Scally's guitars scale such great heights, whilst Victoria Legrand chimes: "There is no way you could know/ These waves they come and they go" over appositely cyclical washes of oneiric majesty. Although not to feature on forthcoming fourth Bloom , you can't help but sense that had Equal Mind featured as the A-side then that [...]
I am in love with this new Beach House track 'Myth', which is the first single from their 4th and upcoming album entitled 'Bloom' . Alongside Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Victoria Legrand is possibly one of my biggest girl crushes at the moment. I consider her as one of the great female voices, a hybrid [...]
Waking up to new Beach House feels something like waking up with a once-lost partner who, having previously fled the nest, returns to warming and moreover familiar embrace to generate a feeling similar to that lovingly squeezed into every one of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's wondrous tracks. Myth, released just gone midnight across the pond, is alleged to be lifted from their forthcoming and indeed fourth Sub Pop/ Bella Union LP, Bloom and although Legrand may coo and swoon of "a new direction" this is, quite unquestionably, quintessential Beach House. Cascading guitars fall like the softest snowfall, [...]
Waking up to new Beach House feels something like waking up with a once-lost partner who, having previously fled the nest, returns to warming and moreover familiar embrace to generate a feeling similar to that lovingly squeezed into every one of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's wondrous tracks. Myth, released just gone midnight across the pond, is alleged to be lifted from their forthcoming and indeed fourth Sub Pop/ Bella Union LP, Bloom and although Legrand may coo and swoon of "a new direction" this is, quite unquestionably, quintessential Beach House. Cascading guitars fall like the softest snowfall, [...]
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