Sunday 21 March 2010

Beach House - Teen Dream (7/10)


This charismatic dream pop duo make there 3rd album release with 'Teen Dream' and there debut with Sub Pop Records.
The interplay between Victoria Legrand's voice and droning keyboards and Alex Scally's guitars is still the key element of the band's aesthetic, but this album gives you a rounder more listener friendly piece of work. Beach House mix up the sounds of many influences which can be heard in this album from start to finish, such sounds of Fleetwood Mac and Velvet underground spring to mind personally. I think the music scene is missing a band like this, a great breath of fresh air.
Soulful, dreamy and chilled would be three words to sum up this album. Not a 'world beater' by any stretch, but beach house displays a real confidence in their sound and uniqueness; this is where we take our hats off. So different to anything out now, This Baltimore Band really does offer the music scene a very clean, fresh and atmospheric alternative to the 'chinking' guitar riffs of many bands today.

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