Album Rating: 3.5

Some of my fave BH songs on here (Superstar, Through Me, Over and Over) but most of it sounds pretty standard for them, which is not a complaint really. They've always been a band I liked rather than loved and this doesn't change that. Good stuff.

Album Rating: 3.5

Honestly the most disappointing thing here for me is that it doesn’t have a song that I unreservedly love or would put near my top Beach House songs, which sucks because almost every BH album has, aside from the first two; even Thank Your Lucky Stars has “Elegy to the Void” which I’d take over anything here. “Superstar” is probably the closest this comes but even that is missing a bit of extra oomph.

the traveller

Album Rating: 2.5

I'm proud that sputnikmusic once again survived the hype propaganda and rated this accordingly. Should be 3.5 at best, but at least it's under 4.0 and that makes me glad. This band is definitely struggling. What a hallucinatory decision form their part to release a behemoth LP when their artistic fountain is dry!!

you had me curious and now im wondering how in the fuck is 7 tied for 2nd highest bh ?? site is crazy

Album Rating: 2.5

Are you implying that 7 is their best release or one of their worst lol? 7 is objectively their second best release after Bloom.

7 is objectively a zillion miles better than teen dream agreed

Album Rating: 2.5

prepubescent teen dream*



hate that album, how did they redirect themselves from that hipster shit to perfection is a miracle to me

Album Rating: 4.5

Throwing around "objectively" and lmao "hype propaganda" what even



Just say you don't like it babe, it's ok, a lot of us love it and still love Beach House

If anything, this is their one album that deserves the hype imo.

I'll admit the way it was released in 3 EPs or whatever was kinda silly and killed the hype but that's probably some COVID related logistics shit I dunno

the new money beach house fans post 7 are fucking annoying

Album Rating: 2.5

Meh, I bet you all like it because it's safe to like it. Any time a renowned artist releases a long-ass album people with short attention spans from internet forums engage in this forced play pretend game of adoration, lying to themselves that long length is always justified, only to not be judged by their critical peers who are all knees deep in circle jerk mode at the time.

NO OFFENCE, Ash, bloc, budgie, don't take this personally, it's just my opinion. You guys can convince me I'm wrong if you can just name 3 great songs on this album that can rival the 3 best songs from Bloom or 7. You can't. I mean you can, but you will make a fool of yourself cause there are no standouts here, nor is any consistency. In reality it is probably a collection of b-sides and the overall rating proves that (ignore RYM please, right now it consists of 90% under 18 white guilt gamma boys right now). Admit it, your favorite band dun goof'd. It's alright, dw you'll survive if you rate this accordingly.

the only thing of that mass wall of text my eyes picked up was "under 18 white guilt gamma boys" and i refuse to read further

Album Rating: 4.5

Not even my favorite band or anything and I said a few pages ago I do wish this was shorter, but there are literally no bad songs so idk what you're on about consistency and there are a few standouts for me that I've been playing on repeat: Superstar, New Romance, Masquerade, Hurts To Love, and Modern Love Stories



I promise you'll survive knowing that a lot of us love this for the actual music and not a circle jerk



Plus your little circle jerk theory can apply to literally any album that gets a lot of praise lol

Album Rating: 4.5

lol it's legal to vibe to this sheesh

Album Rating: 5.0

This is Beach House's masterpiece. It is the culmination of 18 years of expanding and refining their sound, yet still manages to experiment; they have never released a song quite like Runaway, or Masquerade or Hurts to Love or Only You Know before, and everything connects.

As someone who loved pop as a kid and then fell into shoegaze and goth in my teens, this reaches my core. It has a pop sensibility, but a dark, beautiful and damaged heart. The deeper you explore, the more variety and subtlety you find, and each individual song seems to choose its moment to rise up and lacerate you. ESP, for example, can pass unnoticed on one listen between the majesty and pomp of Runaway and New Romance, and then all of a sudden, listening in a more reflective mindset, it is the absolute highlight of the first disc.

A lot of Beach House fans on other forums LOVE this album. It will be a popular choice as their best when all is said and done, but it is the nature of Beach House that every album has its champions. For me, this is it. I cannot imagine how they can improve on this. Every song is monumental. Every listen reveals something new. Every itch is scratched.

And when it trancends, fuck me if it doesn't take me to places I thought I couldn't reach without chemical assistance...

>>>You can't. I mean you can, but you will make a fool of yourself cause there are no standouts here, nor is any consistency.
uhhhh
>>>New Romance, Masquerade, Hurts To Love
tbh fair play baseline
>>>they have never released a song quite like Runaway
yh
>>>Masquerade
eh
>>>Hurts to Love
...rly??
>>>or Only You Know
literally Woo 2

Not reading all that but also What a hallucinatory decision form their part to release a behemoth LP when their artistic fountain is dry!! [2]

Actually i think the fountain is full but they added a lotta suds

Album Rating: 5.0

Woo is ace, and definitely on the shoegaze side of things, but Only You Know really embraces the My Bloody Valentine type wall of sound thing like no other Beach House song. I feel To Here Knows When was a fairly large influence here, and also on Modern Love Stories maybe.