Customer Reviews

Beach House

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

...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.

Beach House is one of those bands that didn't grab me right away. It's been over a year since their album came out and I'm just now getting excited over it. I even saw these guys live last year and even then they didn't catch my attention. But that's exactly why I've grown to love this album so much over the last few months.

This album is unpretentious and quiet; it doesn't try to smack you over the head. There is a somewhat deceptive, childlike simplicity to the rhythms (sounds like they pulled them right off the portable casio) that threw me off guard at first, which probably explains why it took so long for them to get under my skin. Then, seemingly all of the sudden, I found myself singing along and wondering why the album was so short and why hadn't I been listening to this band non-stop for the last 12 months?

The standout track for me is "Heart and Lungs". It's an unusual structure for a song: one verse, one chorus, some oohs and ahhs and then it's done... almost... I won't give away the ending; suffice to say, it's worth the wait.

Beach House is not recommended for those who like Top 40. Side effects may include uncontrolled singing along and head swaying.

Often cited as the promise of Mazzy Star fulfilled, Beach House comes along in the time of Grizzly Bear. Yet in the hands of a realized band, tracks like Apple Orchard and Master of None could've gone all the way, but here the lack of presence and control lets these tracks flutter off into a novelty of "not so much". This album shows more promise for the band's future which became much more evident in the 4 star album Devotion.

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.

i just got this and i think it is SO good. here are some words that this album invoked in my head: good, psychedellic, minimal, spacious, magic, witchcraft, surf, orange, reverb, haunting, Portishead, lo-fi, absolutely gorgeous.

im just a simple boy who had thanksgiving lunch in a field in alabama, but if you have ever seen lebron james perform, or witnessed a girl with no arms eat, well then you know what it feels like to listen to beachhouse. good god almighty.

The first half of this album is perfect. It is extremely beautiful music. My personal favorite song is "Master of None". I have been listening to this album over and over again for a week now. It just puts me in such a happy place. I can't describe how beautiful this music is...just buy it and find out for yourself...you won't regret it.

I can't wait to see what else they put out in the future.