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| Strangeglue |
 Beach House's newest and third effort 'Teen Dream' is due for release in just five days time -Jan 25th - but instead of making us wait until early next week to give the LP a spin, the Baltimore pair are now streaming the entire thing completely free of charge online.Though it leaked terribly early on a host of websites back in November of 2009, you can now listen to it legally over at the NPR website. If we were you we'd head on over there right away to catch a pre-release glimpse of what is possibly an early album of the year contender. Be sure to come back and let us know what you think. For the record, we think it's really, really good so far....full text |
| Prefixmag |
| Beach House's Victoria Legrand and Alex Scully isolated themselves during the creation of Teen Dream, holing themselves up in a converted church in upstate New York with producer Chris Coady. But despite that isolation, the sound of the record (according to the band) is anything but insular. Their first album for Sub Pop, and third overall, expands on the band's warm fuzz, resting their haunting sound on more rhythmic foundations. According to Legrand, "There's a different kind of intimacy, a physicality on Teen Dream." That physicality may ground you a little more in the hazy world of Beach House, but that might be a good thing. If this new world is as large as they claim it to be, it's best to keep your bearings....full text |
| Obscuresound |
| Merely a few months after I started this site, I deemed an album by Beach House to be “the most atmospherically beautiful debut of the year.” Although slightly rough around the edges, their debut showed a band on the brink of something special. This was back in 2006, and seeing the Baltimore-based duo grow into the masterminds behind the stunning Teen Dream has further convinced me of their rare maturity. With this, multi-instrumentalist Alex Scally and vocalist/organist Victoria Legrand may in fact have taken one of the largest leaps in music over the past several years, which is all the more respectable considering they did not significantly alter their style or image. True success is measured by sincerity and talent, so it would make little sense to toy with other genres if one is intent in their ways and already critically acclaimed. Beach House’s 2008 follow-up, Devotion, realized just this and decided to evolve from the debut as opposed to turning over a new leaf. An insatiable hunger for success, while artistically healthy, can be detrimental in its approach if it results in unnatural stylistic hesitation. Beach House’s third album, Teen Dream, is remarkable not only because of its sheer quality and consistency, but also in its willingness to stick with what Beach House are most natural at doing. The word “natural” is often used objectively in the sciences, but in the arts it tends to pertain to an indescribable feeling garnered by witnessing both sincerity and skill from an artist. When something fits superbly in music, we tend to describe the effect as providing a “natural flow” or the artist as being “a natural”. The question then is, do so-called naturals improve their skills, acquire new ones, or do both? Teen Dream answers this in an interesting manner. Beach House have maintained their original sound, but modifications in production make their music more vividly effective than ever. There are is more emphasis on instrumental variety, crisper sounding production, and an exuberant confidence that results in monumental success, all while sounding distinctively like the duo we already know and love. There is still a sense of enjoyable ambiguity surrounding the duo though, mainly attributed to Legrand’s uniquely powerful vocals. Her voice is very fascinating in this release, emitting more confidence than on any of their prior albums. She finds rare pitch in her voice that is not relative to male or female, which is so remarkably unique that some first-time listeners may have no clue who is singing....full text |
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