Beach House

Beach House

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 3, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Carpark Records
• ASIN: B000I0QKN8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,958 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars buy this album, January 9, 2007

By	Jason L. Stankowski (CT, usa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...I did, because I read that Beach House is like a better Mazzy Star. (In my opinion they're not better, just similar.) Upon hearing BH, I fell in deep. An evening spent with this album and a flickering candle is an event. "Apple Orchard" is about as beautiful as any song I've ever heard sung.

5.0 out of 5 stars haunting, beautiful music, June 28, 2007

By	Joseph Broze (chicago) - See all my reviews

I don't know if this band really sounds like Mazzy Star or Slowdive...but they are certainly influenced by them. I saw them at Emo's in Austin and the Subterranean in Chicago and I was floored by their live performace (despite the amazing amount of douchebags that feel the need to chit-chat while bands are playing...go to a bar where bands aren't playing you mongoloids!!!).

This CD is very, very, very good. There are all sorts of influences...maybe a little shoegaze, Magnetic Fields, aforementioned bands, and whatever else. I am not sure what else to say. "Tokyo Witch" is one of the best songs I have heard in the past couple years. I am very excited to see them for a third time in one year at the Pitchfork festival this summer. Folks...listen to the songs on the band's myspace site and if you dig them: buy the CD. It really grows on you. Solid music here, I hope they do another album.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty unbelievable music, August 10, 2007

By	Nuno Leal Da Silva "Emilio Robin" (Lisboa, Portugal) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Tha name says it all. This is absolute beach house music. This is music from Ralph lauren catalog people somewhere in Maine, Long Island, Vermont. Cocktails and beautiful smiles among autumn first and shy raindrops. This is autumn desert beach windy day music. At some point these songs will recall you United States of America and consequently Broadcast and Pram (especially the voice and the organ sounds). At some point Moondog from his first album (the sparse orchestrations, minimal) or even Slowdive (from Pygmalion) or Mojave 3. But this couple doesn't stay still under their influences. They goes further on other directions. They are on a more intimate sort of way, a more happy sad way, almost as high as was Nico from Marble Index or Desertshore. A classic must-have.