Album Review: Beach House - Depression Cherry

After a three-year wait another brilliant Beach House album materialises out of the ether.

With a record sleeve clad in red velvet the exception, Depression Cherry doesn't boast any radical new directions, though they aren't afraid to expand into more abstract territory — and while the press release states it's a simpler sound, this isn't entirely true. While instrumentation has been stripped back a bit, songs that have simple, deeply embedded melodies are given room to bend and warp and decay in beautiful anti-Lynchian soundscapes. Not as cinematic and accessible as Bloom, it's a much stranger, much stronger record.