Beach House - Devotion (Black 2LP Vinyl)

Beach House - Devotion (Black 2LP Vinyl)Feeling lonely tonight? Turn off the TV and lower the lights. Baltimore duo Beach House have returned with their sophomore full length entitled Devotion. Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand have written 11 delicate pop tunes about love, feeling, and, of course, devotion. Their new album is a surefire antidote to the winter blues. The recording is crisper, the songs are fuller. This is a band that is taking the pop duo format to the limit. The organs,

and Omari Jazz

sleeping with one eye open

timbres and texture

and To Cure A Weakling Child shows flashes of the sort of sadism found only on preschool playgrounds

It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent

Hellfire is like an epic action film

Content Nauseafeatures mostly the work of Savage and Brown

was co-produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and frequent tour collaborator Zac Brown with Chris also lending his mixing talents for the album

flexing her skills in the studio and rebuilding her sound

You can hear it on the album’s peaceful and considered field recordings

commercial sublimation and sensory overload

the band excavates difficult memories of their past to match their heaviest guitar work to date