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I t’s hard to imagine a more
suitable title for this album.
Beach House fans (greeted by
the news of a surprise album) are
definitely thanking their lucky stars
for this musical gift. Less than
two months since the release of
Depression Cherry , Beach House
surprised everyone with another
nine songs, a complete album.
Thank Your Lucky Stars sounds
beautifully familiar - the crystalline
pop melodies, subdued shoegaze
textures and vocal performances
are unmistakable, but the overall
mood is slightly different, perhaps
darker, quieter, haunted. On its
own the LP is a welcome addition
to Beach House’s impeccable
catalogue, and as a companion to
Depression Cherry it’s a melancholic
progression to twilight from the
previous record’s vibrant light of
day. (Sub Pop/Mistletone) Simon Winkler
BEACH HOUSE
THANK YOUR
LUCKY STARS
092 NOVEMBER 2015 NOW
OUT
SKINDRED - Vo
Availableas LTDCD+DVD,
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The new
SYMPHONIC METAL project of
CharlotteWessels (DELAIN),
Georg Neuhauser (SERENITY)
and Oliver Philipps (EVERON)!
20.11.
OUT
PHANTASMA - The Deviant Hearts
Availableas LTDDigipak+100pagenovel,CDandDownload!
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JOANNA NEWSOM
DIVERS
Like a stimulative tonic, Joanna Newsom’s
fourth full-length album Divers prompts both
soft introspection and wild fancies; it looks for
answers to love’s questions in all manner of hidey-
holes and vistas without ever wandering so far that
Newsom gets lost – an enormous feat, considering
the turf she traverses. While medieval clavichords
are softened by jangling Americana guitar and
gentle rimshots in Leaving The City, Goose Eggs
sees tom-booming drums fling themselves forward
like a Tori Amos hit. Piano
accordion, flute, piccolo,
various woodwind, violins,
tiny electronic elements
and the artist’s own
harp curl together in this
astonishingly dynamic
collection, and while these
instruments are all doing their own discrete things,
they frolick together; Newsom and her arrangers
are able to arouse them into living characters
like creatures in a Miyazaki film or Peter And The
Wolf, and they’re all playing this ring-a-rosy with
the artist’s voice. Newsom’s vocals are, of course,
full of contrary temper: quietly intricate vowels
skitter around her goal notes, and all the while
she utilises her fearless cache of vibrato, cutesy
curls and Joni Mitchell caws. She has drawn on all
of her previous releases
to deliver this record,
which expressively and
sensitively explores the
caverns hiding life’s little
profundities.
(Remote Control)
Zoë Radas
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