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 Subliminal dreamy pop May 18, 2010
Alex (MK UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Beach House's third album is the most lush, layered and spacious album they have yet produced. Having had Teen Dream for a few months now it is fair to say that it definitely rewards repeated listens. Upon first hearing it can easily wash over you but the more time devoted to it the more the album reveals. The mix of keyboard, guitar and electronic beats, topped by Victoria Legrand's distinctive vocals, creates a very laidback and ethereal sound that works so well that you will struggle to hear a better album this year.
 Dreamy May 16, 2010
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beach House has the sort of sound that you'd expect from a band with that name -- languid, vaguely dreamlike pop, full of summer nights, sparkling stars and a twist of reto 60s psychedelica. "Teen Dream" is a pretty polished product of that sound -- it's basically a string of silvery pop tunes, all of them enjoyable and sweet but with only one real standout.
"Zebra" opens the album like a sunrise -- a languid cycling guitar, and murmured lyrics about a deceptive, exquisite person. "You know you're gold, you don't gotta worry none/Oasis child, born and so wild/Don't I know you better than the rest/All deception, all deception from you..." It slips easily into the second song, the mellow curling "Silver Soul."
The songs that follow are mostly in the same vein -- mellotron laced pop songs that reek of the 60s, breathless rustling stretches, peppy beach-party tunes like "Used To Be," and sparkly melodies that rattle and shimmer like a jewelry box. And if the first couple songs are sunrise, the final couple of songs are sunset -- a slow, easy descent into the stately "Real Love" and the soft, vaguely psychedelic "Take Care."
"Teen Dream" is a lot like Beach House's last two albums -- in other words, it's a fairly steady and unwavering little pop album. There are some little speckles of dancy sound or uptempo moments, but a lot of the time it's just a steady stream of mildly psychedelic pop. The biggest flaw is that there's only one real standout song on the album (the alluring epic "Walk in the Park").
In fact, the rest of the songs just bleed into a big satiny expanse, but fortunately they're very sweet, pretty songs. As for the instrumentation, it's all very smooth and seamlessly wound together -- lots of gentle percussion, cycling guitars, plinky keyboard and some tambourine, and colorful pillars of organ that prop up the slower melodies.
Victoria Legrand's raspy voice is a bit of a surprise at first, but eventually it sinks into the melodies and becomes a part of them. And while their lyrics have some awkward moments ("The heart is a stone and this is a stone that we throw"), but otherwise they tend to be a bit surreal and very evocative ("The needle along the spinning wheel/Collecting silver coil/It gathers heat without you"), with wooden houses, beaches, and lovers who want too much.
"Teen Dream" is a slightly more polished form of Beach House's signature sound -- mellow, sweet and very pretty. Nice work.
Beautiful music May 9, 2010
Lincoln Mary (Lincoln U.K.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard Beach House on 6Music and bought it. I find similarities to Jonsi, Sigur Ros, Loney Dear - also possibly Fleet Foxes. If you like those bands I think you'll probably like Beach House.
 Bland, empty,souless March 16, 2010
Mrs. S. E. Wye (london)
3 out of 20 found this review helpful
I read the reviews for this album,and wished i had not. A tour de force of nothingness,which i have not witnessed for a long while! Will my ears ever forgive me? The production is so amature,should listen to Simple Kid if your going to record in your bedroom.Empty drivel for 8year olds.I pride myself in my taste in music,this was truly awful..........One star for turning up.Teen Dream
Soft, melodic, lovely to listen to March 14, 2010
Lilly (London, UK)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I think this is a really good album. Each song sort of blends into the other a little bit, so I can't rate it 5*s.
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