Beach House - Teen DreamThere wasn't much room for Beach House to improve on Devotion, so instead, the duo improved the room in which they made Teen Dream. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally recorded their debut in a converted church with producer engineer Chris Coady, who has also worked with TV on the Radio and Blonde Redhead. The same dark lushness echoes through this album as those bands' works, with a spaciousness that's more like a beach mansion than a mere house. On

magazine Record of the Year 2017) and the third proper studio album by the infamous Los Angeles rock combo

Steve Lamacq ‰ÛÒ "A great little pop record" ‰ÛÒ (BBC 6 Music)

Includes download card

Kimya Dawson has also made children’s albums

in my mind

Simms and Newman’s keyboards add a plaintive note

there are men in underpants on the sleeve

But unlike Volume I

On the strength of some brave/smart radio stations that decided to play this album's "Romeo" (a propulsive horn-flecked slammer in the vein of "Youth of America")

Michigan that started out as The Pleasure Seekers

John re-examines the quieter roots of it all in particularly baroque and homesteadly fashion

while still in the thick of actually living it