UPDATE: That’s the album art above, courtesy of Beach House’s .
isn’t messing around. Baltimore’s favorite boy/girl act should be enjoying the fruits of their labors with the release of the critically-acclaimed “Depression Cherry,” released August 2015 via Sub Pop. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally could have spent the next year touring the strength of “Depression Cherry” around the world and fans would have been completely content.
If you haven’t enough time to digest that album, you’d better hurry up. According to Twitter, the dream-haze act has upped the ante, announcing their next album, “Thank Your Lucky Stars,” is set to drop on October 16. And for those of you rolling your eyes thinking that the new material is leftovers from the last album, Victoria and Alex have news for you.
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We are very excited, it's an album being released the way we want. It's not a companion to depression cherry or a surprise or b-sides
— Beach House (@BeaccchHoussse)
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Check out an excerpt of of “Depression Cherry” below.
There are never big shifts or surprises in a new Beach House record. Instead, we get slight tweaks and subtle refinements that hew each record into something distinct but familiar and consistently true to form. Whatever Legrand meant by comparing it to a prairie fire, it works if you think of it as something that looks unchanging from a distance but, on a closer look, is moving and burning in different ways all the time. On “Depression Cherry,” she and Scally toyed with harsher sounds and dissonance more than before, though itap only for brief, satisfying moments that leave you wanting more. That exploration makes “Sparks” the album’s best song — one on which they dampened the drums and laid the grittier effects on the guitar and synths. They used a much lighter touch in reshaping their sound across the rest of the record, making the changes nearly imperceptible.
