Premature Evaluation: Beach House - Teen Dream

When we meditated on Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's gorgeous sophomore album Devotion we had the following to say:

[Y]ou can't fall back on Mazzy Star or Galaxie 500 references because they've pushed themselves into their own, unique solar system. Victoria's voice and woozy after-hours organ tones are more assured, Alex has lost the beard but gained more inventive, atmospheric guitar lines. For just one instance, listen to "You Came To Me," the way each part of it builds. We don't think they could've wrote that song a year ago. Throughout Devotion, they've pushed their template in all the right directions. They haven't changed ... it's more that they've deepened.

Here we are, not quite a year later, and they've gone even deeper. As a commenter noted when we posted "Norway," this is one lush Teen Dream: They've upped the ante enough to be, basically, a different band than we first saw at the Cake Shop during CMJ '06. They've made great use of time.

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