Description:	Red 7" on Bella Union, limited to 500 copies
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Shoegaze / Dream Pop
	Label:	Bella Union
	Price:	£3.39
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 15 January 2010.

Beach House single next. Our Clinton likes these so much he's eaten the album promo in a fit of delirium and now shrugs his shoulders tearfully whenever we ask him where it is. The ltd 7" ‘Norway’ has got this really spangled vibe, from the current in-vogue affected vocals that remind us of My Morning Jacket or Cass McCombs. Then the music grows, nay blossoms around this lightly thrumming bass & the merest pulse of drum action. But it's all given added zest with the irresistible inclusion of this woozy shimmering synth line that sounds a bit like Oneohtrix Point Never's pet rogue polysynth has escaped out of the synth flap & got drunk in a forest glade before emerging into a sparkling summer dawn where all of nature rules again & we can just sit in amazement as it crushes all the evil doings of mankind like a cockroach underfoot. Or summat. Nice choon.

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What their label says...

Limited to only 500, on RED VINYL and with EXCLUSIVE b-side ‘Baby’.

 BEACH HOUSE return in January 2010 with “Teen Dream”, their third - and first classic - album, on Bella Union records. In anticipation of that release, they present the excellent ‘Norway’, backed with exclusive b-side ‘Baby’.

The Beach House you’re about to meet isn’t the same as the one you’ll remember from before. Lives have been shuffled, tangled and re-aligned. When Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally returned home to their hometown of Baltimore last winter, they were worn out from touring and travel. But deep inside them hot energies were incubating, ideas they had been whispering back and forth in the wake of their sophomore full-length, 2008’s “Devotion”. By spring they began handing themselves over completely to these impulses, holing themselves up and exchanging ideas in a new, secluded practice space for dangerously long periods of time. As the songs that would become “Teen Dream” began to live, breathe and take shape, the duo were compelled to leave much of their personal lives behind them. “We were forced to let go of people and things we were holding onto as individuals” Legrand muses. “We were dropped into a wilderness, but we had more clarity than we’ve ever had before”.

Still driven to avoid distraction, the two marched further into isolation, deciding to bottle all those wild visions away from home. They packed up their lives and settled into a converted church in upstate New York with producer Chris Coady. For a month they continued the birthing process, sweating and pushing out sounds inside a cocoon of their very own weaving.

TRACKLISTING:

Side A – Norway
Side B – Baby