killstopgo:

DEM HUNGA BEACH TAPE

tuneage:

Beach House - “Norway”

The way it starts - mechanical drum machine hits and organ blast - makes you think that it is just another track off of their self-titled debut.  “Get out of 2006, Beach Hou…”  But before you finish that thought, the track has exploded.  Compared to their somnambulatory jams of years past, this track is Babe Ruth calling his shot in the bottom of the ninth.  Phrases like “hazy and ambling,” which once seemed so appropriate for their past work have no place alongside Victoria Legrand’s pant-and-yell chorus routine.  The woozy guitars are still firmly in place, and the organ is still the backbone of the track, but the drums have sprung to life and the contrast between the verses, which feel like stretched taffy, and the lush, powerful chorus provide a dynamic which Beach House has never achieved before.  This is the sound of a band stepping up its game.

dontdiewonderingmusic:

Heavy Hawaii

HH, short for Heavy Hawaii, make brilliantly lopsided, melodically diagonal little lo-fi retro-pop gems. Based on a certain Beach Boy wooziness, with shards of broken doo-woop and vocals that sound like a resurrected zombie Elliot Smith, these songs are like an instant hit of alllllllllllllright. You may find this track on the amazing, limited 300 copy tape from Bathetic, that you may get here if it isn’t too late. While being dubbed by them as “hands down, probably the greatest compilation mixtape you’ll ever own”, I can only add that with tracks by Best Coast, Cough Cool, Norse Horse and Deep Sht, Nude Beach and Young Governor, this is definitely the future-nostalgia-on nostalgia sound of summer 2009.

Heavy Hawaii - Sleeping Bag (mp3)