Indeed, Bloom may be Beach House's most sonically gorgeous album yet, with an icy sheen that doesn't warm up much, even when recordings of locusts and seagulls show up between tracks it's easy to imagine LeGrand exhaling clouds of mist while singing the backing vocals on "Lazuli." While the endearing, sometimes awkward intimacy of Beach House's earlier work - which felt like LeGrand was crooning confessions over creaky, vintage keyboards and drum machines just for you - is missed, Bloom's shimmering remoteness enhances the album's philosophical, searching approach to love and loss.
This ambition is admirable, but it also means that it takes a while for individual moments to emerge from the album's beautiful haze. Reuniting with Teen Dream engineer Chris Coady, the duo designed the album to be listened to as a whole, and fittingly, it often feels more like a suite than a collection of songs. "It's a strange paradise," Victoria LeGrand sings at one point on Beach House's fourth album Bloom, and there isn't a more apt description of the beautifully heartbroken mood that she and Alex Scally create here.
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