Beach House: A Thank You!
I'd go anywhere you want to
You should see there's a place I want to take you
When the train comes I will hold you
Cause you blow my mind
"Beach houses are rickety, inviting spaces that, by nature of their existence, live outside of time. If a beach house were to change noticeably—if that paperback you left there last May isn't still sitting upside-down and open to the same page, gathering dust on the same shelf you left it—you'd be upset," wrote Pitchfork critic Jayson Greene in a review of Depression Cherry. And I wholeheartedly concur.
For there is something hugely comforting, an anesthetising effect, in listening to their dreamy, psychedelic harmonies, so hypnotic and impeccably crafted, you are often left spellbound. For me, it all happened by chance years ago with Norway and Zebra. I was a newbie to dream pop then, yet I found myself coming back to them again and again, as if they were a magnet attracting a bunch of paperclips (as for how, I still don't know). Over the years, their songs - Take Care, Levitation, Myth, Wishes, Apple Orchard, Walk in the Park, Other People, and Rough Song to name a few - have only grown on me, like a slow poison, refusing to let go, but at the same time, giving me so much of an emotional solace that I can't even possibly explain in words.
I'd take care of you if you'd ask me to
In a year or two
So a big thank you, Beach House!
Note: I realise this is a little personal, but I have been listening to Beach House and Beach House only these days, so I wanted to get this out and share what I felt about them. They are simply the best, and no other band has managed to connect me to their music at an emotional level.
You should see there's a place I want to take you
When the train comes I will hold you
Cause you blow my mind
"Beach houses are rickety, inviting spaces that, by nature of their existence, live outside of time. If a beach house were to change noticeably—if that paperback you left there last May isn't still sitting upside-down and open to the same page, gathering dust on the same shelf you left it—you'd be upset," wrote Pitchfork critic Jayson Greene in a review of Depression Cherry. And I wholeheartedly concur.
For there is something hugely comforting, an anesthetising effect, in listening to their dreamy, psychedelic harmonies, so hypnotic and impeccably crafted, you are often left spellbound. For me, it all happened by chance years ago with Norway and Zebra. I was a newbie to dream pop then, yet I found myself coming back to them again and again, as if they were a magnet attracting a bunch of paperclips (as for how, I still don't know). Over the years, their songs - Take Care, Levitation, Myth, Wishes, Apple Orchard, Walk in the Park, Other People, and Rough Song to name a few - have only grown on me, like a slow poison, refusing to let go, but at the same time, giving me so much of an emotional solace that I can't even possibly explain in words.
I'd take care of you if you'd ask me to
In a year or two
So a big thank you, Beach House!
Note: I realise this is a little personal, but I have been listening to Beach House and Beach House only these days, so I wanted to get this out and share what I felt about them. They are simply the best, and no other band has managed to connect me to their music at an emotional level.
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