Beach House is back. And, of course, it is like they never left. With two albums released in 2015, Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars, as well as last year’s b-sides collection, it’s not like the group has been out of the spotlight for long, with a steady diet of touring and festivals keeping them in the public eye. But right in before the end of Valentine’s Day, the Baltimore duo let it be known that 2018 was going to be another big year for the band.
The message was simple: “Wishing everyone out there love tonight. Here is ‘Lemon Glow’” from our upcoming album, due later this spring. But the song was anything but ordinary. For a band that can sometimes be criticized for veering into similar territory from album to album (this writer could easily argue against that), “Lemon Glow” is dense, hypnotic, and, by its end, kaleidoscopic and noisy. It’s not a new band — Victoria Legrand’s smokey whisper singing still anchors the track — but it’s an adventurous taste from a band that has rarely disappointed.
Give “Lemon Glow” a listen above, and look for the new Beach House album, their seventh career full-length, coming later this year, presumably on Sub Pop.
