Thank Your Lucky Stars

Album review

We’ve barely had time to taste, appreciate, and digest the wonderful Depression Cherry, and we find that Beach House have released another new album! There were only fifty days between these two records! Thank Your Lucky Stars, the sixth album from the Baltimore duo, was recorded alongside Depression Cherry, but, as they put it themselves, ‘for us it is a very different album. All of the songs were written after those on Depression Cherry. We wanted those to be heard first by listeners, before this new record’. On first listen, one finds as strong a collection of songs as any disc in the Beach House catalogue, but the sound is much more lo-fi, and much less ample. It serves as a return to the duo’s early years… There is present the sublime melancholy that we have come to love in the voice of Victoria Legrand (the niece of Michel), and in the harmonies of Alex Scally, which seem much more intimate here than on Depression Cherry. The dreamy-pop of Thank Your Lucky Stars offers us an atypical minimalism, a real point of departure for the band, but the record remains just as captivating as its predecessor. © MD/Qobuz