★★★★★
There's something about the build-up to a band's third album. A make-or-break ho hum that is often unavoidable. Will they cleanse the nasty aftertaste from a sophomore slump? Will they hit a plateau after a promising progression? Will they continue to demonstrate genuine talent after two terrific releases, solidifying itself as more than another overnight blogosphere sensation? Will they drop a dud and fizzle into mediocrity...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Beach House seem to subscribe to the aesthetic that says the most effective way to stand out is to be the best at blending in on your own terms. Not unlike recent tourmates The Clientele, the Baltimore duo's second LP, Devotion, opts for hushed, plaintive pieces that wash seamlessly into one another. More often than not, this results in an evenly paced elegance few can achieve, but ultimately lessens the listening experience by homogenizing what is an otherwise undeniably lovely sound...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Seattle quartet and Sub Pop labelmates Poor Moon were the sole opener for Beach House at their stop in Boston on this tour in support of the latter's excellent new release, Bloom. Apparently, the band is a side project of Fleet Foxes, a tidbit of information I wouldn't discover until I began to write this very review...
- www.punknews.org
2012-10-22
★★★★★
Summary: Even daydreamers like a little structure. 11 of 11 thought this review was well written Beach House have never been quite as comfortable in their own shoes as in their latest release, Bloom. It's quite the apt title; from somewhat of a dream-pop identity crisis arises a different specimen entirely. This is where the magic lies with the group's third installment. The band's previous album Teen Dream insisted on reeling in the listener, and played off as more of an involuntary slumber...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
In year of Our Lord 2000-and-torrent, official album release dates are one part formality, two parts joke. While May 15 was the official release date of Beach House's much anticipated fourth effort, Bloom, it is an open secret that this thing appeared online about two months ago, dribbling from all the usual Internet pipelines...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2012-06-04
★★★★★
While most have been singing the praises of Baltimore-based indie-pop duo Beach House since their Sub Pop debut Teen Dream in January 2010, the release of their fourth album has rendered earlier acclaim somewhat moot. Bloom, a collection of ten songs penned by Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, display a band confident in their sound, but most importantly tapping into a depth of artistry that is achieved by only a select few in each decade per genre...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2012-05-31
★★★★★
Beach House perfected what it had been been crafting for six years on 2010's Teen Dream: emotional, sparkling and occasionally brooding pop melodies baked inside a lush kaleidoscope of sound ("dream pop," if you will, a phrase abstract enough to remain relevant to what Beach House still does). If music could be incandescent, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally nailed the visualization via sound...
- www.punknews.org
2012-05-31
★★★★★
"Bloom" is the fourth studio album from Beach House and follows the duo's successful 2010 album "Teen Dream." Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand created "Bloom" on the road during the band's two-year tour.The first single, "Myth," is a beautiful concoction of twinkling synth, with dreamlike, fluid melodies, paired with equally dreamy lyrics: "What comes after this, momentary bliss...
- www.boston.com
2012-05-31
★★★★★
It's an understatement to say Beach House's fourth album Bloom was long-awaited, especially after 2010?s Teen Dream received such high praise from both music press and synth-pop fans. On their first two albums, Beach House were a talented dream-pop duo, playing sleep-walking melodies with a lo-fi touch, something to fall asleep in a cottoned bed on a cloudy day but it was rarely intriguing or breathtaking...
- www.state.ie
2012-05-24
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