Rating: 8/10
I want the world to hear them, because they deserve this. For an artist, there is nothing more miserable than exhausted desire, you create something for someone and they don't even recognize. All those amazing underrated bands, records, and i thank to them everyday for creating such great music. They could sit and wait or sleep, and they didn't. That's why i I love art so much! Baltimore dream pop duo, Beach House appear with another awesome record and i lose my self-control. It is again simple and fullfilled with emotion. As you know, the self-titled Beach House was one of the most blogged records of the last year. Organs, percussion, and guitars echo around your listening place. Actually their tunes are pretty relaxing that you never count the songs to finish listening. It just plays. Victoria Legrand keeps her color of voice exactly same on every song, but she is impressive, i can give my word. I think she's a big fan of Nico who is one of the most important female names in rock music history. The openers Wedding Bell and Gila are the best cuts. As a whole, it's original and it keeps you dreamy on winter days.
MM picks: Wedding Bell, Gila, All The Years, D.A.R.L.I.N.G.
Beach House - Gila
Beach House - Devotion - Review
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Labels: new music
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3 COMMENTS:
This is a very, very interesting blog.
Devotion rocks!
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are falsely presenting your personal situation with fame/recognition as if it were a universal truth - that an artist's psychological contentedness is supposedly determined by some pathetic need for recognition. How disrespectful to the artist is that? How disrespectful are you being to devote the opening of an article "of praise" to talking about the music in terms of what is not there - recognition (which you are somehow able to define in the artist's absence; you place recognition practically adjacent to "success"). This brings up a problem with music, post-phonograph. We find a bunch of marginally talented, YET somehow, self-congratulatory egomaniacs who spend more time talking about their worth than at the piano with a staff and a pencil. They out the cart before the horse with their lust for self-recognition. How about recognition as a byproduct of the autonomous artist's work? How about success as the song; is it articulating what the artist wants to say? By the end of the song, do the lyrics or the notes resolve or craftily prolong the sentiment at hand? This article should start at the words "Baltimore dream pop duo..." What cannot be heard on the album should be specific to Beach House - not to your vicarious aspirations. And, the best songs are, rather, your favorites. That said, it is a delightful album! I wonder if sounds like this could develop in the lime light or if a certain degree of their beauty is attributable to the artists' leading role in the production. My impression is that the reverberant, bittersweet melancholia I feel in listening to it comes from real individuals - that the album is close to the root of the ideas - not withered through a pop record label.
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