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Beach House

Beach House Audio CD
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Bloom is the fourth full length album by Baltimore-based Beach House. It builds on 2010s Teen Dream to further develop their distinctive sound yet stands apart as a new piece of work. Bloom is meant to be experienced as an album, a singular, unified vision of the world. The many layers of Bloom are uncomplicated and meticulously constructed to ensure there is no waste. Bloom was recorded in ... Read more in Amazon's Beach House Store

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Product details

  • Audio CD (2 Oct 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Bella Union
  • ASIN: B000I0QKN8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 198,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Dreamy, haunting, relaxing 25 Sep 2010
By Desk
Format:Audio CD
After hearing one song on the radio I bought Devotion and Teen Dream - both of which deserve five stars. This one is not far off the the same standard, so if you like the others you may want this one to complete the set.
The sound is distinctive - mostly some very "slidy" slide guitar over a layer of keyboards, with Victoria Legrand singing over the top. Dreamy, haunting, relaxing but without being background music.
There is a "hidden" track which doesn't do anything for me. ( What is the point of hidden tracks? )
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5.0 out of 5 stars great album 29 April 2013
By loujay
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought this as a birthday gift for my nephew totally loved it he's got all the other albums for this band
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting rather than exciting 15 April 2013
Format:Audio CD
I've had this on my wish list (along with some of the other Beach House records) for some time. On paper, Beach House are a hopelessly fashionable prospect - an attractive female singer who is related to Michel Le Grand, coupled with an unruly-haired musician, throw in some lo-fi production and droning instruments what could possibly go wrong? Well after four-five listens I can state that I broadly like what I hear but there's something missing. As other reviewers have pointed out Ms Le Grand just doesn't appear to be that into the whole experience and as a consequence her lack of passion sort of spoils things.

I desparately wanted to like this record - probably because I thought it'd help me become tragically hip once again. I will undoubtedly continue to listen to it over time and I may even buy some of their other recordings but I fear that I will continue to be an ageing and unfashionable curmudgeon. All in all an utter failure (for me that is).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Life's a Beach 31 Aug 2007
By Mr. B. A. D. Plowman VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I was listening to BEACH HOUSE in my kitchen this morning, and it served as the perfect accompaniment to my steaming mug of aromatic jasmine tea!
For the 36 minute duration I found myself floating inside a misty, autumnal bubble.
I was transported from the mundanity of my kitchen in to a world of misty riverbanks, dilapidated old chapels, deserted pebble beaches and slate-grey skies. In short, I resolved that I had just found the perfect soundtrack to the impending autumn season.

There is a TANGIBLE autumnal vibe to this quietly marvellous album. The tunes are set at a low temperature and rather etheriel, built on endearingly languid female vocals, beatboxes, echoing organs and a mournful slide guitar. One tune melts naturally in to the next, each with melancholy hooks that haunt the consciousness subsequent to listening.

The whole LP has a REMARKABLE vibe - the music has a distant, almost GHOSTLY quality. It is undeniably spellbinding. Many of these pieces are so captivating that they sound as if they were borne from the depths of a shimmering, frozen lake. Sublime.

BEACH HOUSE is a hauntingly lovely experience. Fall under it's spell as the leaves turn from green to red and we enter the most reflective season on the calender: AUTUMN.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By russell clarke TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
"Love you all the time" drawls Victoria Legrand on opening track "Saltwater" while queasy keyboards and sibilant percussion drone and flux in the background. It's by turns narcoleptic and unsettling but always drowsily beautiful and it certainly augers well for the rest of the album.

Second track "Tokyo Witch "offers more of the same with added counterpoints of bilious guitar. By the third track "Apple Orchard" and those keyboards are still droning , the guitars once more wavering at their higher register and the vocals are still gliding languorously and it's starts to occur to you that maybe this band are a one trick pony. Oh sure it's a lovely appealing pony trotting indolently through a sun dappled meadow but it's never going to gambol off and investigate other delights the world may have to offer. No, it's just going to trot lazily and beatifically round that bloody meadow.

Yet when you hear the glorious "Master Of None" where Legrand actually sings with something approaching passion the results are so intoxicating that Beach House's stylistic limits matter not a jot. The madrigal tones of "Auburn And Ivory" showcase more imagination but the song is a rather prosaic two step stroll. "Childhood" is built on more simplistic piano while on "Lovelier Girl "the arrangement is plodding and Legrand struggles with the low notes. On "House On The Hill" the keyboards resonate like a gargantuous organ in a monstrous cathedral which is a good thing in my book but again the song is nothing special and while final track "Heart And Lungs "does attain a measure of lambent splendour a bit is tacked on (after the obligatory mysterious pause) to a funereal dirge that sounds like its coming through your speakers on dodgy AM.
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