Teen Dream

So dreamy, but never to the point of feeling like it blew itself away; it remained fluid but thick and sweet, like floating in a pool of honey. The songwriting and production echoed a lot of the same notes as Fleet Foxes for me while also calling to mind Phil Spector and his wall of sound, and of course it definitely had the influence from the synth-rock sounds of Disintegration-era Cure. This hit a lot of sweet spots for me. On another note (or perhaps because of these notes), damn would this make some good bonin’ music. I gotta go get my wife.

I put every single track on my 1001 Albums playlist. For me, this album is the gold standard of dream pop. I could listen to it all day. Best track: Zebra

This record is the exact sound of all indie anti-pop mainstream records in the 2010s. It takes me back to being 25, wanting to get drunk, party, and listen to anything but this style of music. I don’t dislike it, I just can’t have fun with it. And nothing about this feels special or groundbreaking.

Well. I'm not sure what I think really. It was relaxing, well done for what it was. I feel like I need to listen to it again, as I'm not sure if I liked it or not. Odd review, I know, but so was this album.

Take me back so simpler, vibier times. Fill my heart with your delicate voice. Fill my tank with your 5-star album.

This sounds a bit like the moody musical sections of some TV show, where the characters stare into the distance in the rain pondering what they've done. Not that that's a bad thing, really liked it.

Gorgeous glimmering music, loud and powerful yet gentle and soothing. Impeccable atmosphere. Best song: Take Care

I can sort of understand why people might like this, it's really not for me though. It doesn't really do anything, or go anywhere. There's no passion in here, it's like they're going through the motions in an effort to sound cool and they're falling way short. Not for me.

Arguably the most neutral, uneventful, uninspiring album so far

Explain to me again why there are no Yo La Tengo records on this list. Also, they do a bit of lifting of “No Other One” by Weezer on the first track. Tell me I’m not the only one who hears it. This is the kind of record that your “indie” friend won’t shut the fuck up about for a month and then they never mention Beach House ever again. It’s aesthetically pleasing on the ears, but lacks substance or any sense of urgency. Indie Rock used to be cool. Now, it’s…this.

If dry granola made an album. Completely lacking anything of any interest.

Great chill vibes/shoegaze?

A favorite album in this house.

Nice beachy New Wave/dream pop

Not my favorite Beach House album but tbh everything of theirs from this album on is 5-star territory imo

I like it a lot. The music and the voice are really attractive.

Beach House is a top ten artist for me, and this album is what brought me in. It's an entire mood.

Wow this is a masterpiece. I was sceptical first, but this is MAGICAL

Beautiful dreamy shoegazy album. Silver Soul, Take Care are some beautiful songs. I love the vocals silky voice, it's almost a lullaby.

I forgot how great this album is. Time to listen to more Beach House.

I now see why they are so popular!

This one is on my daily rotation. Fucking love them

Couldn’t really get into this, every song seemed the same and the music was pretty boring.

Guess I woke up on the unforgiving side of the bed, because this Teen Dream was a bit of a nightmare. But it's as advertised; it's sung in the key of "maudlin teen." Personally, I'd rather listen to Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" on repeat than listen to this album again. It's a no from me, dawg.

Excellent album de dream pop. Duo très intéressant!

Beach House er fantastisk IMO. Avslappende men ikke så mye at det blir kjedelig. Synes det er bittelitt rart at det er teen dream og ikke bloom som er albumet som blir trukket frem. Men, fantastiske album begge to.

Great.

So dreamy

Beach House babyyyyyyyy

Production: 13/20 Songwriting: 14/20 Innovation: 13/20 Bangers: 5/20 Emotional response: 15/20 =60 Oooh just sneaked into the four star slot there

I've never hear of this artist or album before. It's not bad. Could be nice to fall asleep to.

Never heard of Beach House before and this album was a good introduction. I liked the harmonics between the vocalists and the melodies as well, not to mention the the guitar riffs. Listened while I work and the songs did a great job of a chill background music. A solid 8/10. Favorite songs: Zebra, Silver Soul, Better Times

Sounds like every other pop album from the same era. Although it's mixed well and there is some quality to the craft, it is overall boring and repetitive.

Aural pleasant wallpaper.

There is stuff here to like but they eventually work against themselves as the songs progress. And that is for every song, to the point that it feels like its all just one song. The vocals are interesting in timbre but there is a lack of variation and it becomes monotonous, the orchestration and arrangement does the same. Much like a dream it all flows together and I have. hard time remembering any of it. Maybe that’s the point.

So far I really dislike this. It’s like elevator music that’s depressing. The fact that I can’t just ignore it is wild, it actively pisses me off

An all time favorite

Beautiful album, you forget about how much music was like this around 2010, it was a really good time for music. Surfy/indie/laid-back. Music to sit in a warm field and listen to.

Adorei!

definition of the genre

So chill, I love it !

Rubber soul

This is a great album. One of the best of that year 2010

some indie pop stuff. alright for some background music

Quite chill. Not exactly what I'm looking for at the moment but it fit in quite nicely with the snowy environment while taking a walk.

Lots of the songs by Beach House sound very similar. So I think the album is cohesive. I was able to listen to the whole thing, but largely forgot about it while listening. Then something happened, the streaming service got to the end of the album and another song came up and the style was similar but the singing was better. I was like "ooh who is this singer, they should get her to do more songs" but it was a different band and album entirely ("The Trip by Still Corners")

I love Beach House's approach to using low-end synthesizers and other electronic instruments, I believe they said something like "find a crappy keyboard, and find the one setting on it that sounds good and ignore the rest". I had no listened to this particular album, but I knew of Silver Soul which is super good, peak Beach House. The semi-lofi soft melancholy singing and song progressions is millennial sad in a bottle. I think it still holds up. Legrand's vocals are still unique to my ears, they feel very honest. I hear elements of drone, shoegaze, but of course that sparkly indie-pop of the 2010s. I love the detuning on Norway, which I've heard as well. There is a bit of a lull in the middle of the album for me though, the first 3 tracks are 4s but the others are completely ignorable for me, unfortunately. I really want to give it a 4 but as an album it is not consistent in quality, so it's a 3.5 down to 3.

I think they forgot that the drum machine can go faster than 60 beats per minute. But really, this was a boring, non-descript, self-indulgent album.

Individual tracks are pleasant - montage music for films at the sad part when you don’t know if the romance will work out or not. All together as an album it’s dreary. Tough to wade through in one go.

Either it’s a ‘grower’ or I have severe adhd but I couldn’t listen to any one track all the way through.

Shite

I'll never forget my solo, post-divorce road trip with my aging do to the Northern California coast. This was the soundtrack.

"Silver Soul" & "10 Mile Stereo" scratched such a brain itch.

Nearly top tier Beach House. The things they accomplish with sound on here is unreal

Fantastic album from start to finish. Favorite tracks were Zebra, Silver Soul, and Take Care.

Loved the dream pop sound

I love da beach house

Maybe my favorite beach house album. Such a great example of light dreampop. Repeats: zebra, Norway, walk in the park, used to be, real love, take care

Favorite tracks: Fucking all of it

kind of blends together, but i imagine it's very good if this is the genre you're looking for

Loved it. I like this band

Pretty good!

Screwed in wooden stage floor to this

every song is a 10/10 I fucking love these guys

Está bien. Slow indie pop.

FABulous

This album wasn’t really my favorite in terms of type of music but this is a great album to just listen to while working. It’s very vibe heavy and relaxing. I liked it more as the album went on.

Slapped

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I love it.

Lover of Mine slaps! Rest of the album is superb. Easy 5 star.

I’m late to the table, discovering Beach house only now; they hit the sweet spot for project listening. “When consumed, as intended, as a full album, their sound took on the entrancing and metronomic quality of an EKG machine. …Relentless innovation is a prerequisite for survival in a streaming era that so fiercely values novelty. But the poise and obstinate evenness of Beach House’s catalogue offer a rejoinder to our obsession with reinvention. -Carrie Battan for the New Yorker 2/7/22

So fucking good. I'm crying

Beach House have really sneakily become one of my favourite bands of all time and this album is so so good getting to hear them a little bit earlier on a litte rougher around the edges and adhering to a sound that was less distinct but they were still capable of producing soundscapes like Silver Soul that showed what they'd go on to make later in their career. Just really touching and amazing and lush and emotional

Nice and snug.

Guess it's nice background music?

Its fine. I dont need to listen to it before I die

I must be a dreary millennial because I appreciate the lugubrious tone of this album. It’s a general album for a generation that is worse off than the previous, continuously blamed for their parents’ decisions—who gave us participation trophies? If a part of you doesn’t understand the mood of this album, then you might just be too old to understand this sadness is generally in our blood along with all the micro-plastics; like it or not.

Hmm, sorry, what was that? I seem to have drifted off for a bit... I like her voice, and I hear elements of Mazzy Star, Eliot Smith and Jeff Buckley in their singing and songwriting, but nothing quite a tuneful or memorable as any of those artists. What it reminds me of most is a mix of Mercury Rev and Eno's Music for Airports. I was surprised to read in the wikipedia page that, according to Alex Scally "There's very little reverb on the record". Really? Compared to what? I feel like they spent a goodly portion of their recording budget on very expensive digital reverbs. It's super chill, and pleasant in the background. 2.5 stars, rounding up.

Another from my seemingly large collection of "albums from the 2000s I own but have never listened to". And it's quite good! Somewhere between Arcade Fire and Fleet Foxes, with the washed-out vocal/guitar/organ sound characteristic of that period. I bet Mark is unimpressed

I heard music. Wasn't aware of it.

Boring. Best track: Zebra

Track 01 - 1.25/5 Track 02 - 0.5/5 Track 03 - 1.75/5 Track 04 - 1.5/5 Track 05 - 2/5 Track 06 - 0.75/5 Track 07 - 1/5 Track 08 - 1.75/5 Track 09 - 2/5 Track 10 - 2/5 Overall: 1.5/5 Album Art: 2/5

this should be the type of stuff that on paper i should like. in reality its not very often i like american indie music. its generally like this album, bland, twee and made for adverts.

2, nice but not very unique

Objectively there's nothing wrong with the music. But I hate this. I hate the way of singing, the tempo is too fast to be relaxed and too slow to be anything else, the drums are too laid back, there's way too much reverb for my taste. I'm pretty sure this music is supposed to be relaxing, but it annoys me. Makes me want to punch them in the face to get them going. Least hated song: Norway

It reminds me of if my life was being filmed in a movie and after an all night rager where you just party hard till the sun comes up and everyone is passed out on the floor and some people including myself had a blast and got super fucked up and some people had an emotional fallout from the party and the camera does an aerial footage shot and fades away into a commercial break for femine hygiene products is what Beach House reminds me of. By the way the film airs on MTV tonight at 9pm

I'm beginning to think that dream pop is like The Grateful Dead. You need to take the right drugs to enjoy this humdrum silly nonsense.

It was ok. I listened to the whole album. I certainly didn't find anything I must listen to again, but equally nothing on there that forced me to stop listening. All a bit 'meh' really.

“Soporific” needn’t be derogatory; my kid dozed to sounds like this when he was a baby. Laying into the music would be like kicking a sleeping puppy, and besides my leg’s nodded off. Let’s rest a somnolent 2, and pull the sheets over our heads, and communally wet our beds.

Did not like...not sure why. Reminded me of rejected songs from the Forrest Gump soundtrack for some reason.

Never heard of them before this, never will again. Pish, which should never be in this list, or in end of year top album lists. Not one song I liked, or would be happy to hear again. Rubbish

Ugh, so dull. Not sure I'd ever want to meet the Teens who have Dreams as anodyne as this whiny lo-fi crap

it's samey but it's also my style

Love this record. Seeing these songs live is amazing.

Really nice melodic music. Great to listen while working, but also just to chill out

Lighthearted, easy listening

Right up my alley. A good indie-laid back album

So lovely. Take Care was on a playlist I made Julian a fews back.

Great sound