Review: Beach House - Devotion

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So this is dream pop. What is dream pop, you ask? Think ethereal textures rather than hooks, breathy high-register vocals that sound more sexless than sexual, and hazy minimalistic tones as opposed to brawny melodies. That's dream pop and Beach House fits the bill. Of course, genre geeks might consider Beach House to be more akin to shoegaze, but shoegaze implies a sense of aggression that washes over the dreamy waves of pop. Where My Bloody Valentine is shoegaze, Low is dream pop. Or maybe it's one and the same and I'm just pointlessly pissing in the wind. Probably the latter. Beach...

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