{"id":6795,"date":"2012-06-22T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:09:32","slug":"beach-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/beach-house\/","title":{"rendered":"BEACH HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6796\" title=\"BEACH-HOUSE-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BEACH-HOUSE-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BEACH-HOUSE-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BEACH-HOUSE-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>EACH HOUSE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Bloom<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sub Pop]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On their first three albums, Beach House architects Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand built one of the more recognizable sounds in modern indie rock. With the fourth, they don\u2019t change things up so much as they focus and improve them. As always, the songs mix drum-machine beats with the dizzying slo-mo <em>whoosh<\/em> of keyboard, echo-rich guitar and Legrand\u2019s stately, often unintelligible vocals. It\u2019s a recipe for gloriously melancholic, paradoxically uplifting music\u2014especially on \u201cMyth\u201d and lead single \u201cLazuli,\u201d which center on the fleeting nature of pleasure. The dreaminess (abetted by producer Chris Coady, returning from 2010\u2019s <em>Teen Dream<\/em>) gives even the loveliest tunes an undercurrent of dread, as on \u201cWild,\u201d which finds Legrand singing, \u201cMy mother said to me that I\u2019d get in trouble\/Our father won\u2019t come home \u2019cause he\u2019s seeing double.\u201d On \u201cWishes\u201d she sings, \u201cThe roses on the lawn don\u2019t know what side you\u2019re on,\u201d effectively welcoming listeners into a world where everything is pretty but nothing is as it seems. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEACH HOUSE Bloom [Sub Pop] On their first three albums, Beach House architects Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand built one of the more recognizable sounds in modern indie rock. With the fourth, they don\u2019t change things up so much as they focus and improve them. As always, the songs mix drum-machine beats with the dizzying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4107,4106,1475,4109,3754,531,4108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}