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10.0
8180
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The Irish Times
Shimmering and evocative from start to finish, Teen Dream is an album that will haunt you for many months to come
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10.0
19560
10.0 |
BBC
The most unmistakeable sound on Teen Dream is that of a band truly finding its own voice. In so doing, they may just have minted the new decade’s first essential album
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9.1
19562
9.1 |
A.V. Club
Beach House’s progress is measured in moods that deepen with each release
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9.0
19564
9.0 |
Prefix
To the rest of the musicians putting out albums in 2010: Meet your competition
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9.0
19565
9.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Beach House is clearly ready to step out from the shadows and play timeless music intended for dreamers and romantics
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9.0
19567
9.0 |
Slant Magazine
Like "Norway," a mini masterpiece of vocal and musical interplay, Teen Dream boldly complies the subtle and the overt
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9.0
8336
9.0 |
Pitchfork
This is both the most diverse and most listenable of their three full-lengths, and yet it never seems like a compromise
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9.0
8098
9.0 |
NME
They’ve made an absolutely magical record – the jagged edges of their past have been smoothed by the sea, making ‘Teen Dream’ a soft shore gem in the crown of the great chronicles of youth
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8.5
8333
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The Line Of Best Fit
...the depth hidden amongst Teen Dream will have many people missing out; returning to this record garners it a strength as you uncover the layers of shimmering nuances and secret delights you have missed the first time round
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8.0
8297
8.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
Print edition only
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8.0
8300
8.0 |
The Sunday Times
Beach House are more than ready to make the move up from cult favourites to serious contenders
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8.0
8200
8.0 |
The Independent
The endlessly cycling guitar and keyboard arpeggios are pursued with the doggedly methodical manner of shoegazers, and the mid-tempo 4/4 persists for virtually the entire album
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8.0
8205
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Beach House are certainly a secret worth knowing about
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8.0
8229
8.0 |
The Times
...a stunning collection of woozy dreampop and beguilingly brilliant songwriting
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8.0
8269
8.0 |
State
For a third-album-band in its relative infancy (founded in 2004), it is astounding that Beach House can now produce something so brilliantly complete, catchy and yet unique.
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8.0
8138
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
The veil of fog (or pot smoke) that once kept them at a distance has been lifted, revealing a band with passion and verve to spare
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8.0
7878
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Spin
... dense-fog organs, reverb-y slide guitars, and nodding harmonies feel as lush as a midnight walk in a wet garden.
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8.0
7884
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
7891
8.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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8.0
8337
8.0 |
Clash
This is a band with the rarest of touches, familiar in their frailty yet fathomless in their depths
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8.0
8393
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Teen Dream manifests itself as a continuation of all the elements that have defined the Baltimore duo as domineers to their specific craft
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8.0
8454
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Beach House have reached the point in their career where achieving grand melodic climaxes seems to come to them effortlessly, and on Teen Dream the climaxes are as thrilling as ever before
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8.0
8472
8.0 |
PopMatters
The comparison of her singing to Nico and Hope Sandoval is understandable, but Teen Dream uncovers shades of Kristin Hersh and Stevie Nicks, among others
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8.0
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8.0 |
Blurt
...transplant the woozy pop haze of the vintage West Coast and transplant it beneath the shadows of the Shawangunk Mountains, crafting the masterpiece many of their fans knew they had in them all along
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8.0
19566
8.0 |
musicOMH
Teen Dream is no mean achievement; its song structures are at times jaw-droppingly intricate
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8.0
19563
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Beach House will see you through some lonely nights
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7.5
7877
7.5 |
The Quietus
Moments of awkwardness aside, the album's textures and moods are often gorgeously captivating and always interesting
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7.0
8050
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
...it’s shot through with more than a handful of heartstoppingly wonderful moments
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
They're more radiant than ever on their third disc, particularly on songs like "Zebra," with background chorales swooping over stately guitar plucking
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7.0
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7.0 |
God Is In The TV
While some people may find it ultimately tiresome in full, listening in chunks provides the perfect post-indulgence soothe-ou
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7.0
8399
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
Teen Dream is an album to put on and drift blissfully away in
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6.7
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6.7 |
Beats Per Minute
They’re refining their craft, producing some of their most bewitching material yet
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6.0
8307
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Lovely in places, then, but not quite the masterpiece some believe it to be
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6.0
8279
6.0 |
The Observer
This polite, pretty record will sound nice when it comes on, and waft away, overtaken by the next blogosphere indie crush
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6.0
7895
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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4.0
7928
4.0 |
The List
Pleasant on the ears while it’s on, but instantly forgettable afterwards
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4.0
8174
4.0 |
The Guardian
The single Norway has a nice line in strange, prismatic guitar twinkles, but there's not much else that's particularly striking about Teen Dream
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