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David Belisle

Beach House

Beach House — lead singer Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally, both also multi-instrumentalists — is touring behind its eighth studio album, Once Twice Melody. The “musical soulmates” met in 2004 and soon formed the experimental alternative band. Released in four chapters across four months, Once Twice Melody is an eighteen-song album described by Variety as "Vividly atmospheric, melodically beguiling, and seductive enough to keep you coming back over and over." The fourth and final chapter was released Feb. 18, coinciding with the first show of the tour. With Colloboh.

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media release: On February 18, 2022, Beach House will release their 8th album titled Once Twice Melody.

Once Twice Melody, the first album produced entirely by Beach House, was recorded at Pachyderm studio in Cannon Falls, MN, United Studio in Los Angeles, CA, and Apple Orchard Studios in Baltimore, MD. For the first time, a live string ensemble was used, with arrangements by David Campbell. Once Twice Melody was mostly mixed by Alan Moulder but a few tracks were also mixed by Caesar Edmunds, Trevor Spencer, and Dave Fridmann. Once Twice Melody features 18 tracks, and in the lead up to the physical release, will be presented in 4 chapters with lyric animations for each song.

The entire chapter and song release schedule will be as follows:

Chapter 1 on November 10, 2021 1. Once Twice Melody 2. Superstar 3. Pink Funeral 4. Through Me

Chapter 2 on December 8, 2021 5. Runaway 6. ESP 7. New Romance 8. Over and Over

Chapter 3 on January 19, 2022 9. Sunset 10. Only You Know 11. Another Go Around 12. Masquerade 13. Illusion of Forever

Chapter 4 (full album release) on February 18, 2022 14. Finale 15. The Bells 16. Hurts to Love 17. Many Nights 18. Modern Love Stories

What people are saying about Once Twice Melody:

"Chapter One captured that storybook quality with sweeping ballads fit for a baroque fairytale, each guided by Victoria Legrand’s typically enchanting vocals." - The AV Club  

“...Their most cinematic record yet. Working with a live string ensemble for the first time, they summon a sound more surrealistic than anything on 2018’s 7, bringing to mind 1960s psychedelia, Stereolab, and Broadcast’s ‘Come On Let’s Go’." - Pitchfork  

"Beach House’s music contains many gifts, but it’s the group’s ability to magnify life’s small dramas into sky-sized emotions that glitters (“Superstar”)." - New York Times  

“All of them are amazing. All of them have their proponents. But “Superstar,” while perhaps not the most novel of the bunch, is the one that gave me the spine-chilling sensation of listening to a bona fide Beach House classic for the first time.” ("Song of the Week”) - Stereogum  

“Things begin with the stunning title track that mixes low-fi electronics with baroque touches and a stirring string section. You can hear echoes of Broadcast, Stereolab and Spacemen 3 (whose Sonic Boom produced their last album, 7). The hand-drawn animated lyric video, directed by Annapurna Kumar, is great too. From there, it's the pulsing, kaleidoscopic ‘Superstar’ (video by Nicholas Law), the neon dread of ‘Pink Funeral’ (full of strings right out of a horror film and a video by Scott Kiernan), and the melting arpeggiations of ‘Through Me’ (with a video by San Charoenchai). The visuals for all four songs are fantastic, very different, but majorly psychedelic.” - Brooklyn Vegan  

“‘Over and Over’ shimmers, shines and ultimately uplifts for more than seven minutes. Throughout the mesmerizing track, vocalist Victoria Legrand beguiles alongside enveloping synths.” - Cool Hunting  

“Beach House has perfected the "escapist" song, which knocks you into dizziness and elation, heightened by those rotating, shimmering synths... it may also have the power to temporarily cure you of seasonal depression. ‘Over and Over," from the Baltimore's pair's new album, Once Twice Melody, is made for those few minutes between sunset and night — when purplish light extinguishes and noses turn red from the cold.” - NPR Music