April 14, 2023

Beach House: Become EP

Very psyched to announce that Beach House will release Become, a new five-song EP, as a Record Store Day crystal-clear vinyl exclusive via Sub Pop. The EP will be released into the streamiverse by Mistletone on Friday, April 28.
 
Alex and Victoria/Beach House said;
“The Become EP is a collection of 5 songs from the Once Twice Melody sessions. We didn’t think they fit in the world of OTM, but later realized they all fit in a little world of their own. To us, they are all kind of scuzzy and spacious, and live in the spirit realm. It’s not really where we are currently going, but it’s definitely somewhere we have been. We hope you enjoy these tunes.”
 
Become, which features the songs “American Daughter,” “Devil’s Pool,” “Holiday House,” “Black Magic” and the title track, was produced by Beach House, with mixing by Alan Moulder (track 1), Trevor Spencer (tracks 2, 3, 5), and Caesar Edmunds (track 4), and mastering by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound.

In 2022, Beach House released Once Twice Melody, the duo’s acclaimed, eighteen-track, double album on Mistletone Records, presented in 4 chapters with lyric animations for each song.
 
Once Twice Melody earned “Best Albums of 2022” placement from the likes of The New Yorker, Variety, The Ringer, Under the Radar, Brooklyn Vegan, The AV Club, Stereogum, PAPER, PASTE, All Music, PopMatters, Pitchfork “Readers Poll,” Gorilla vs. Bear, Treble, Magnet, No Ripcord, UncutUproxx “Critics Poll,” and more.
 
Once Twice Melody went #1 on Billboard’s Albums Sales Chart, the band’s first-ever record to do so. Beach House also performed Once Twice Melody standout “Superstar” on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert:


In 2022, Beach House’s ”Space Song,” from Depression Cherry (Mistletone, 2015) became the group’s first certified Platinum single. 
 
Once Twice Melody is available on mail order here, with just a few gold & silver limited editions remaining.
 
What people are saying about Beach House:
Once Twice Melody is one of the best records of the year and a testament to the virtue of constancy” (“The Best Music of 2022”) – The New Yorker
 
Once Twice Melody is their most definitive and probably best work — and even more remarkably in these ADD-addled times, they’ve done it with a sprawling, 18-song album that is around 80 minutes long (#5/”The Best Albums of 2022, Jem Aswad”) – Variety
 
Melody is mesmerizing, and it raises exciting possibilities of how Beach House’s sound could evolve in the next decade-plus (#18/”The 33 Best Albums of 2022”) – The Ringer
 
“Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally doled out four perfectly sweeping segments for their eighth full-length; taken together, they represent the pinnacle of the band’s craft. There are far too many highlights to single just one or two out: Once Twice Melody is an album that keeps on giving, immersive and rewarding, a marvel to get lost in.” (#23/”The 50 Best Albums of 2022”) – Stereogum
 
“From the majestic opening notes of the title track to the last electronic flourish of closer “Modern Love Stories,” Once Twice Melody is the culmination of everything Beach House do best.” (#45/”The 50 Best Albums of 2022”) – PASTE

Beach House BecomeEP

Tracklisting:
1. American Daughter
2. Devil’s Pool
3. Holiday House
4. Black Magic
5. Become

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