I’m not the biggest follower of Beach House. I think I only got round to listening some albums of theirs initially because Pitchfork said they were very good. This would’ve been back in 2013/14 or so. Their latest record at that point was Bloom, an LP that was considered to be a tenth of a point better than the album that preceded it. Having listened to those albums for some time now, I’ve gotta say my favourite between the two is Teen Dream. I just like more songs from there. But Bloom has some highlights itself, one of those by a mile is the opener, ‘Myth’.

Like the first track that came before on Teen Dream, ‘Myth’ basically grabbed me straight away with the progression of that twinkling guitar in the intro. Everything after that was an added bonus. Victoria Legrand’s voice was just as ‘grand’ and majestic, smokey still, but with a bunch of reverb this time round. The vocal melody was striking and seemed so familiar, even though I hadn’t heard the track before. It seemed like one of those that has always been in the ether somewhere. Obviously it hadn’t, but by the end of the track I was humming along like I’d known it for years. I couldn’t sing to it; I didn’t know the lyrics. And then to round it all off comes that crying guitar sort of solo to bring it home before transitioning into the quiet keyboard riff that’s been looping since the track’s start. All comes round full circle, and it’s beautiful stuff.

Beach House have some great, great songs. They’re just in a list of those artists/bands that indieheads love that I’ve never been able to quite get into. Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem… Sufjan Stevens. Those iconic indie people, I guess. Same situation, all have great songs, but there’s just something about them all I’m not able to vibe. But you know, it doesn’t matter that much. It’s okay. You should never try and force these things. All of these songs I’ll continue to vibe to when the time is right.