![]() ![]() Like all their albums, this one is full of songs made for dreaming of a bygone love, or humming quietly to a new one. But that’s a minor misstep for a band as remarkably consistent as Beach House. At times, their formula can shade into self-imitation: “Common Girl” is a pale shadow of “On the Sea,” from 2012’s Bloom, going so far as to use nearly the same lovesick keyboard intro. Thank Your Lucky Stars feels like an opportunity for Beach House to sum up and celebrate the ways they’ve matured since their self-titled 2006 debut. “She’s So Lovely,” another highlight, is a pained tribute to a mysterious beauty: “From the way that her eyes are shaped/And it’s making me sick/With her head on my shoulder,” Legrand sings, tinging her words with an uneasy undercurrent that echoes in one deliberately dissonant keyboard note. Legrand’s droning keyboard part changes little over the song’s six and a half minutes, twisting and turning through strange harmonies on its way to a resolution that never quite comes - as good a summation as any of what Beach House does best. Released OctoThank Your Lucky Stars Tracklist 1 Majorette Lyrics 19.7K 2 She's So Lovely Lyrics 31.7K 3 All Your Yeahs Lyrics 19.7K 4 One Thing Lyrics 13.8K 5 Common Girl Lyrics. Beach House released their fifth album Depression Cherry to widespread critical acclaim and a second straight top ten debut on the Billboard album chart only seven weeks ago. The album’s crown jewel, “Elegy to the Void,” feels tempestuous and trancelike at the same time. This leads to a slight cheapening of the former album, no longer a record in its own right but a box with half the puzzle pieces and it also leads to an unavoidable letdown when the second box comes, and all along it was just a picture of a cat or something.Right-Wing Influencers Just Found Their Favorite New Country Song By releasing another album less than two months later, it inevitably taints the picture so that now we have a conception of the two as parts of a whole, release statement be damned. Until two weeks ago, Depression Cherry was entirely its own event, a self-contained, totally satisfactory product by a band that we expected to deliver nothing less. When it comes down to it, Thank Your Lucky Stars feels like exactly what it is – a victim of circumstance. ![]() If there's anything political to be found, it's a dyed-in-the-wool cynicism, born and bred in the modern atmosphere of distrust. Rather, the slightly broader focus on topics outside the realm of the heart zooms out the lens on a band who weren't exactly known for specificity in the first place. Fans around the world probably groaned when the dreaded p-word (“political”) was dropped alongside mention of the new album, but fear not, there's no scathing attacks on Blair or Abraham Lincoln samples in sight. All the ingredients of the Depression Cherry pie are still here Legrand's gorgeous melodies, a hint of evil fuzz humming away in the background, production so obsessed with gazing at its shoes that it could walk straight off a cliff. Which is funny, because on the surface level there's really not a whole lot to distinguish the two. And, just as Depression Cherry was soulful, Thank Your Lucky Stars proudly stands in a contrast as a fairly flat affair. Thank Your Lucky Stars might seem a continuation of that ideal if you go off the album title, but again it's a deliberate misconception, with the album's more pessimistic lyrical themes skewing the peaceful title to something closer to a snarled instruction. ![]() well, it was titled ' Depression Cherry', and yet its vibrant red cover signalled a more hopeful attitude which was reflected in its colourful, sky-gazing tunes. They certainly seem to have been the buzzword in the Beach House, uh, house. Review Summary: "This is not a black and white world/To be alive, I say that the colours must swirl"īeach House in 2015. ![]()
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