Released October 3, 2006 Length 36:38 Beach House
(2006) Devotion
(2008) | Genre Dream pop Label Carpark Records | |
Beach House is the debut studio album by Baltimore dream pop duo Beach House and was released on 3 October 2006. The album was included at number sixteen in Pitchfork's list of the best albums of 2006.
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Pitchfork said the album evoked a "recipe of fairground waltzes, ghosted lullabies, and woodland hymnals" and compared the work of the duo to Mazzy Star, Spiritualized and Slowdive.
Only 1,100 white vinyl albums were printed. The album has been reissued on black vinyl.
The song "Master of None" was sampled by The Weeknd for his song "The Party & The After Party" off his 2011 mixtape "House of Balloons". It has also been used in the Netflix show of the same name.
It was featured in Miranda July's movie The Future (2011).
Lovelier Girl
The song "Lovelier Girl" on the album is a cover of Tony, Caro and John's "The Snowdon Song" from their 1972 album "All On The First Day" (Gaarden Records). After amicable discussions on copyright, the authorship of the "Lovelier Girl" version of the song is now jointly attributed to Beach House and Tony Doré of Tony, Caro and John.