Teen Dream
Beach House’s majesty reaches full flower on *Teen Dream*, the band’s third album. Fusing the layered sound of ’90s shoegaze, the passions of ’50s doo-wop, Rolling Stones-style ballads, and just a touch of lullaby, the Baltimore duo forge a style that’s beautiful but tough, mysterious but open. Against the LP’s soft-focus songs, Victoria Legrand’s voice sounds warm and husky. The overall effect is hypnotic, making for a collection that (ever so gently) demands repeated listens.
Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months. Both the CD and LP formats of Teen Dream will arrive packaged with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album, each by a different director.
Teen Dream is both the most diverse and most listenable of the Baltimore band's three full-lengths, and yet it never seems like a compromise.
There is a buoyant, effervescent quality to <b>‘Teen Dream’</b>, the gorgeous new record from Baltimore duo <b>Beach House</b>.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the whisper has grown into a distant yet ever-nearing roar.
Beach House exists within a popular kind of contemporary rock music that is defined by its inoffensiveness and lack of bombast.
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Beach House - Teen Dream review: There's something perpetually charming about Beach House and Teen Dream is their best release yet.
Teen Dream Bella Union ***** It’s taken Beach House three albums to finally reach the stars.