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Beach House, 'Teen Dream'

Article published 20th Jan 10
Beach House, 'Teen Dream' Hear

What:
Teen Dream

Who:
Beach House

On:
Sub Pop / Bella Union

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Come January 23, 2010 the world will change. Just a little bit. Not too much. But those who know why will cherish the day. Australia will see the physical release of an album that is currently streets ahead in the reckoning (mine, at least) for best indie release of 2010. Teen Dream by Beach House. Premature? No way. Well, perhaps in one way. We get it three days before the Americans.

The story behind this record, much like the LP itself, is almost too perfect. It was made in upstate New York, in a building (once a church) now called Dreamland. It indeed sounds like it was recorded in a place of worship - lusher than an AA convention and infused with quiet, unassuming spirituality. It's not just that Teen Dream has all the elements of a great dream pop record - muted percussion, sexless vocals, and a loping, elegiac pace - it's that placed next to Beach House's first two albums, it sounds, impossibly, even better.

Even more than they were after Devotion (the Baltimore duo's second effort), the slowcore and Belle and Sebastian comparisons have become woefully inadequate. Beach House are just Beach House. Thank God for that.

By Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo

Genre: Alternative

Release: Album

Keywords: Teen Dream, Beach House

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