It must be the start of summer, kids, because the new Beach House is open. While you try-before-you-buy four of the 11 tracks—“Black Car,” “Dark Spring,” “Dive” and “Lemon Glow”—off 7 (out today on Sub Pop and featuring collaborative assistance from MAGNET hero Sonic Boom), kick back, pour yourself a fruity adult beverage and think back to endless summers past spent with Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand.
We first formally met this dynamic duo a decade ago with our devotion to Devotion:
Then we covered the album’s cover of a Daniel Johnston song:
It turns out we weren’t the only ones devoted to life at the Beach House. Meet superfan Fran Healy of Travis, who wrote about the band in MAGNET not once …
Travis’ Fran Healy Is Happy To Hang Around: Beach House’s “Teen Dream”
… but twice:
Travis’ Fran Healy Is Happy To Hang Around: Meeting Your Heroes
East River Pipe dove right into the deep end as well:
And Fitz And The Tantrums could barely contain themselves:
We couldn’t contain ourselves, either, naming Beach House’s third LP, Teen Dream, the best album of 2010:
https://magnetmagazine.com/2010/12/16/magnet’s-top-20-albums-of-2010/
We enjoyed Alex and Victoria’s hospitality so much, two years later we named follow-up Bloom the third-best album of 2012:
Fifth LP Depression Cherry didn’t make our list of top albums of 2015, but we did call it Essential New Music:
Which leads us to lucky 7. So who’s that Sonic Boom guy who helped out on the new album? We’ll let Dean & Britta set the guest table:
