Beach House

Beach House is the debut studio album by American dream pop duo Beach House. It was released on October 3, 2006, by Carpark Records in North America, Bella Union in Europe, and Mistletone Records in Australia. The album received mostly positive reviews from music critics. The album had a remastered reissue in 2010 by HeartBreakBeat Records with a run limited to 1,000 copies on black vinyl. In 2012, a pressing on special edition white vinyl was released through Bella Union. In 2015, the band self-released a white cassette during the Depression Cherry tour. As of April 2012 Beach House has sold 24,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen Soundscan. The album was recorded on a 4-track over a two-day period in Scally's basement. Composition The album has been described as an indie pop record with "shoegazer textures". Almost Cool said the band created an album of "lo-fi, hazy summer dream pop". The opening track, "Saltwater", is a lazy, drifting song built on scratchy, low-key synthetic beats that got "flooded with softly spreading guitar distortion and incandescent organ". "Master Of None" has a "more radiant synths and dreamy guitar rolling out over a slightly funkier rhythm." "Auburn And Ivory" is a siren-song of 60's psychedelia and classical influences that's a duller, more stoney take on The Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire". "Childhood" is "the most upbeat song on the album, and it's one of the warmest."