Teen Dream - Beach House 2LP
For Beach House, there really wasn't much room for improvement after Devotion. So the duo moved to improve the room instead. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally recorded their debut in a converted church with producer/engineer Chris Coady, who had also worked with TV on the Radio and Blonde Redhead. The dark lushness that echoes in these bands’ works reverberates through Teen Dream, with a spaciousness more likely to be found in a beach mansion than a mere house. The hugeness previously implied in Legrand's lyrics and luscious vocals is made real - playing this record will be tuning Beach House in at their highest frequency. The duo's mix of retro electronics and chiming guitars is still as dreamlike and distinctive as ever - if anything, the tinny taps and hisses of their drum machine are more present in Teen Dream's pristine settings. The contrast manufactured between these sounds and the molten slide guitars and rippling keyboards on Norway is astoundingly vivid. Teen Dream is created from songwriting much more focused than Beach House is used to. Devotion’s songs You Came to Me and Heart of Chambers served as templates for the album's elegant longing. In line with Teen Dream's title, these songs are wry and wise enough to know better than to idealise love, yet romantic enough to believe in it. Though not as eclectic and whimsical as their earlier work, Teen Dream houses some of the duo’s most beautiful music and reaffirms their spot amongst the best purveyors of languidly lovelorn songs since Mazzy Star.
For Beach House, there really wasn't much room for improvement after Devotion. So the duo moved to improve the room instead. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally recorded their debut in a converted church with producer/engineer Chris Coady, who had also worked with TV on the Radio and Blonde Redhead. The dark lushness that echoes in these bands’ works reverberates through Teen Dream, with a spaciousness more likely to be found in a beach mansion than a mere house. The hugeness previously implied in Legrand's lyrics and luscious vocals is made real - playing this record will be tuning Beach House in at their highest frequency. The duo's mix of retro electronics and chiming guitars is still as dreamlike and distinctive as ever - if anything, the tinny taps and hisses of their drum machine are more present in Teen Dream's pristine settings. The contrast manufactured between these sounds and the molten slide guitars and rippling keyboards on Norway is astoundingly vivid. Teen Dream is created from songwriting much more focused than Beach House is used to. Devotion’s songs You Came to Me and Heart of Chambers served as templates for the album's elegant longing. In line with Teen Dream's title, these songs are wry and wise enough to know better than to idealise love, yet romantic enough to believe in it. Though not as eclectic and whimsical as their earlier work, Teen Dream houses some of the duo’s most beautiful music and reaffirms their spot amongst the best purveyors of languidly lovelorn songs since Mazzy Star.
For Beach House, there really wasn't much room for improvement after Devotion. So the duo moved to improve the room instead. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally recorded their debut in a converted church with producer/engineer Chris Coady, who had also worked with TV on the Radio and Blonde Redhead. The dark lushness that echoes in these bands’ works reverberates through Teen Dream, with a spaciousness more likely to be found in a beach mansion than a mere house. The hugeness previously implied in Legrand's lyrics and luscious vocals is made real - playing this record will be tuning Beach House in at their highest frequency. The duo's mix of retro electronics and chiming guitars is still as dreamlike and distinctive as ever - if anything, the tinny taps and hisses of their drum machine are more present in Teen Dream's pristine settings. The contrast manufactured between these sounds and the molten slide guitars and rippling keyboards on Norway is astoundingly vivid. Teen Dream is created from songwriting much more focused than Beach House is used to. Devotion’s songs You Came to Me and Heart of Chambers served as templates for the album's elegant longing. In line with Teen Dream's title, these songs are wry and wise enough to know better than to idealise love, yet romantic enough to believe in it. Though not as eclectic and whimsical as their earlier work, Teen Dream houses some of the duo’s most beautiful music and reaffirms their spot amongst the best purveyors of languidly lovelorn songs since Mazzy Star.
