“The branches of the trees, they will hang lower now. You will grow too quick, then you will get over it.”
After a three-year break, Beach House returned in 2015 with Depression Cherry. I bought my copy on vinyl from Main Street Music in Manayunk. I usually don’t buy new vinyl due to the generally extortionate prices, but at $19.98 I recognized and rewarded a good faith effort toward affordability. Read more
Lastly in our little revue of Beach House’s 2014 side project, The Gene Clark No Other Band, please enjoy the full 50-minute performance, courtesy of Pitchfork.
“Flying high above the clouds, we lay in the grassy meadow. The earth was like a pillow for our dreams.”
I did eventually pick up Gene Clark’s No Other on CD thanks to the publicity of this concert series. I have not yet listened to it. I planned instead for a long revue to take place this fall, of some 20 or so CDs that I bought from the now defunct a.k.a Music on its last weekend open to the public, No Other among them. Read more
“In my life the piano sings, brings me words that are not the strength of strings.”
I had never heard of Gene Clark’s No Other before learning of this mini-tour. I wasn’t too familiar with Gene Clark himself, for that matter. I needed a bit of reminding to know that he was a founding member of The Byrds, Read more
“When the stream of changing days turns around in so many ways, then the pilot of the mind must find the right direction.”
Hard to believe summer is over half done and I haven’t gotten around to reviewing my post-Bloom Beach House albums! Better get to ’em while there’s time! What’s held me up the past several weeks was not making time enough to watch and absorb Beach House’s interim side project, The Gene Clark No Other Band, in action. Read more
“Wherever you go, nobody is true. …”
Concluding Beach House’s Bloom is a pure relic from the 1990s: a hidden track. Read more
“It’s a strange paradise.”
Irene is nominally the final track on the Bloom album, and a climactic way to sort of end it. Read more
“One in your life. It happens once and rarely twice.”
Wishes is another clear highlight from Bloom, with an artful, eye-candy music video directed by comedian Eric Wareheim. I think I’m supposed to like this guy, Eric Wareheim, but I’m not sure from where. Read more
