Album: Beach House, Bloom (Bella Union)

Simon Price
Saturday 12 May 2012 15:50 EDT
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For their fourth album, Beach House, the Baltimore dreampop duo of Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand have finessed their vision to perfection.

Bloom's 10 tracks never deviate from a sound which draws upon the ethereal 1980s sounds of Talk Talk and the Blue Nile and evokes feelings of non-specific nostalgia. With its delicate harmonies, tinkling keyboard arpeggios and reverb-drenched guitar, its pristine unity is never disrupted. It is what it is. And what it is is beautiful.

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