So I realized that me doing album reviews is, well, pretty stupid if you come to think of it. With the availability of Pitchfork and the fact that I am but a 16 year old girl, I decided to instead just talk about specific new albums that I like.
The most recent full album I've fallen in love with is Beach House's Bloom and, maybe it has something to do with the summer and the weather, but I feel like this album could not have come at a better time. I feel like I had a bit of a dry spell back in the spring music-wise where I hadn't heard much new stuff, and what I was hearing I didn't really like. I ended up just listening to a lot of Brian Jonestown Massacre and old songs by The National and feeling less than enthused, but suddenly all in one night I saw the movie Drive for the first time and this album came out and it felt like the beginning of a really good summer.
Somehow the 80's-inspired soundtrack that made Drive visually and sonically coherent blended perfectly with the beeping notes that start off "Lazuli", not to mention the fact that the 17 minute song "Irene" shares its name with Ryan Gosling's love interest in the movie. For some reason or another, the two completely separate entities are now connected in my mind and without the matured -but still classic Beach House- sound that Bloom is filled with, I may have never come out of my winter rut. So here's to Bloom, the soundtrack of my summer.