Album: Beach House, Devotion (Bella Union)
So now that you can find and listen to most new bands online within seconds of hearing their name, what purpose this strange impulse to describe music?
That's a rhetorical question, but one thing we might miss would be the kinds of words and phrases ("woozy", "opiated fuzz" and "soundtrack to a misty French film") that have been used to describe this Baltimore duo.
For myself, the Beach House sound is just a little too like a fish-eye lens flashback of a mescaline-soaked merry-go-round ride. And in what discipline other than album reviewing might you find a description like that?
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