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BEACH HOUSE - Beach House
| StylusMagazine | | Beach House begins with lightly bit-crushed drums and a woozy organ that makes its way from church to deserted boardwalk in no real hurry, coaxing like a thick, sweet scent through a crisp wind. The procession of instruments is led by the quiet Victoria Legrand, whose voice saunters with equal deliberation into your psyche....full text |
| | PitchFork | | Summer songs have simple blueprints, syndicated by open windows in June; winter's about bells, strings, and digital sounds, anything with a sharp edge; spring's pretty simple if you start with a seed. Autumn, though, that's a tougher proposition. Those records are few and far between, and worth all the more for it. Beach House aren't called that for the same reason the Beach Boys are, but rather to evoke the desolation of the season after. I'm no synaesthetic but this stuff pretty much screams amber, orange, translucence, and late-October trembles, and I'll be glad to have it in my life over the next couple of months....full text |
| | JunkMedia | | With Beach House, Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, friends since childhood, have turned in a startling debut. Elegantly draped with stylized sounds and slow, gorgeous melodies, it is a near masterpiece. And while the flippant listener may write the band off as style over substance, this is erroneous- the rhythm box beats, washes of organ, and reverb-doused slide guitars are the devices of impeccably well-written songs....full text |
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