damn that's a brutal rating. quite like this album, always thought it a bit overrated but "zebra" jamz

Album Rating: 3.5

Johnny always throws out a few occasional knee-jerk lowballs for fan favorites and critical darlings just to seem more esoteric than he really is but you know he be jammin Zebra on his waterproof shower radio.

Album Rating: 4.5

No one seems to care about this one these days but it remains my second favorite. Hard to describe why but this has one of my favorite album flows ever.

Album Rating: 4.5

I refuse to believe anyone doesn’t like this album. contrarian edgelord bullshit

rly not hard to believe

Album Rating: 1.5

there are a lot of albums i love to hate but occasionally touch base with or jam the odd saving grace from, but TD is 100% in the irredeemable will-not-fucking-touch pile

i feel cheap enough when i listen to beach house's good songs as it is

Album Rating: 4.5

really getting tired of you making weed being so illegal in Japan everyone else's problem

Album Rating: 4.5

there's no way if you were in a stoned fever dream and ended up on a beach and found a big arena made of sand and went inside and saw this music being played live and reverberating around while seashell ppl sway their heads to it that you would willingly walk out

Album Rating: 1.5

i had a literal fever dream last friday, and this being in any way part of it would've been the one final increment of fatal intolerable brainjunk hellshit needed to push me over the edge and make me lose my mind for good

stay hydrated, stay woke, avoid inflammation, kill this dreadful record

Album Rating: 3.5

the show new girl is pretty awesome

beach house and ramones both play so far

Album Rating: 1.5

shut the fuck up budgie

and then it became old

Album Rating: 4.5

this one has nearly all of their identifiable actual songs on it - 90% of the tunes they released after resemble revamped versions of songs from this album



the two albums before this were nice in their way too, half of Bloom is very good, about a third of Dep Chezz is very good, and '7' was weirdly consistent

Album Rating: 4.5

This is their most “song-y” for sure, their most coverable set if you will, and it benefits from that. 7 was indeed weirdly consistent but aside from that I only really care about this and Depression Cherry which is the absolute peak of their more vibe-y side (though I think the songwriting on that one is also great).

Album Rating: 4.5

90% was an exaggeration but a lot of their other stuff sounds a lot more same'y to me anyway - if someone said 'put a highly varied 15 song Beach House 'best of' album together' then I think 7 or 8 songs make the cut from this

Album Rating: 4.5

I dunno, I'm not a Scaruffi 'everything has to be boundary pushing' in a band's output, I'm all for refinement to some degree...but also sometimes I see an album as having blueprints for the 'type' of songs a band write (not necessarily the 'sound' as much).



I believe Beach House have been better at diversifying their sound ahead of song writing itself - it wouldn't matter only I think the band can get a bit boring without a solid unique (to them) melody or song idea etc etc. They get snoozy at times and that pattern started straight after Teen Dream for me with Bloom where a few of the songs are what I refer to as 'big n' bland' (big sound, not much of a song/melody to write home about, over glossy maybe)



I like the band overall though, just a bit of over saturation for me when Depression/Lucky Stars dropped - I was a little bit done with them at that point...but the almost 'big rock band' sound of '7' was a surprise and won me over more than I imagined any Beach House album would do again. New one is Chromatics big n' bland through and through for me though

Album Rating: 4.5

Yes, Lucky Stars always seemed like a bonus release with two great songs and mostly filler



I think you’re right in that Teen Dream seems the happy medium in their approaches and also when I think they had a glut of great songs ideas too…and then Bloom starts ramping up the production values

Album Rating: 4.5

I like the sound and vibe of TYLS more than their first two albums but aside from that (and the fact that it has Elegy to the Void, which is top 10 BH) it’s pretty inessential.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah Boney, I actually quite like the double of 'The Traveler' and 'Elegy to the Void' but the rest I'm mostly indifferent about.



normaloctagon - 'Bloom' I do enjoy a lot, 'Myth' and 'On the Sea' are top 10 Beach House...a few like 'Lazuli' and 'Troublemaker' are a bit more take or leave for me.



'Norway', 'Walk in the Park' and 'Used to Be' is still their best run of songs - '10 Mile Stereo', 'Real Love' and 'Take Care' isn't too far behind as a combo either.

Album Rating: 4.5

Masquerade takes the idea behind the synth arpeggio in Lazuli and implements it in a much smoother and more enjoyable way