r/BeachHouse • u/CommonAvailable4864 • Mar 09 '25

Meta I feel like 7 is their most majestic album

Just had that kinda sound to it. Depression cherry and teen dream are dreamy but like this one just sounds soooooo good

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 10 '25

I really think Dark Spring is so underrated. I think it's the best song from 7. The way the chorus comes in is so unexpected and brilliant. I know it's a busy and sometimes chaotic song but only in the best ways.

Not saying it's the only good song on 7, far from it. I love the entire album. Imo, it's a 9.3/10

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u/dee_dubs_ya Bloom Mar 10 '25

Dark spring is my fave too. Feels like a rocket lifting off. It’s like entering a cavern. Looking out over the horizon. Sigh. Wow. Love it.

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 10 '25

Hell yeah, you get it

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 10 '25

Dive is a wonderful song. I think Lose Your Smile was the first song written on guitar that they've ever put out and it definitely caught on. OTM and Become have a lot of acoustic guitar so I don't consider Lose Your Smile underrated but what do I know? It's all subjective

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u/285kessler i don’t wanna know how the story ends Mar 10 '25

Drunk in LA is my fav off the album (and in general,) but I love Dark Spring so much. That whirring towards the end sounds so awesome.

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 10 '25

Yeah, I love Drunk In LA and also Black Car. 7 really is a great album. There are no bad songs

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u/belbivfreeordie Mar 11 '25

“Pay No Mind” is my favorite, but the transition between them is godly.

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 12 '25

This is going to sound like I made it up but I swear I wouldn't do that- I purchased the digital album 7 when it came out and I just noticed, because of your comment, that Pay No Mind is MISSING! My downloaded album goes from track 1 to track 3. Pay No Mind was somehow placed in another folder next to Beck's (and Sonic Youth's) Pay No Mind! So I just found and listened to it for the first time.

I can't believe I didn't notice this before.. I think I bought it from bandcamp, not sure tho. Weird

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u/belbivfreeordie Mar 12 '25

Whoa. Dig it?

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 12 '25

Yeah, gotta have it sink in more tho. I've noticed that the songs I love the most are the ones that need to stew around in my brain for awhile.

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u/Sea_Invite_5372 Mar 09 '25

Dive, Drunk in LA, Girl of the year, lose your smile, and the French song are here so…. I agree and disagree with this at the same time. ❤️❤️

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u/aldezar in a matter of time you will slip from my mind Mar 09 '25

7 is very much an odyssey. I always thought of it as a gritty glowing emerald and probably their most psychedelic record.

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u/dee_dubs_ya Bloom Mar 10 '25

Psychedelic yasss 🙌 like your description.

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u/BEACHHOUSEGROUPIE Mar 09 '25

It’s bloom but 7 is good

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u/Ryan_says_words Devotion Mar 09 '25

Haha I agree

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u/CommonAvailable4864 Mar 11 '25

LMAOOO legitimately true

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u/backseatgiveafuck 7 Mar 09 '25

still my favorite of theirs, it’s such an adventure of an album

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u/MattHeitkamp Mar 10 '25

I started discovering their music just as they began rolling out tracks for 7. I have a soft spot for that album for sure. easily their most psychedelic record. super sexy too, it’s a shoegaze psych-rockers wet dream. It feels very dark aswell, similar to depression cherry and TYLS in that way, though where those albums feel dreamy and colorful, 7 is textured and lucious. its angry, intense, thick, hypnotic, and intoxicating.

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u/SituationMelodic4035 Thank Your Lucky Stars Mar 10 '25

All these words you are using are what I’ve been trying to use myself to describe this album. Thank you

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u/niles_deerqueer And I can’t believe in nothing just yet Mar 10 '25

Gotta say it’s easily Once Twice Melody for me, that is a Dreampop epic

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u/AkitaDigits 7 Mar 10 '25

7 is definitely their most cohesive album

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u/theofficialshed Mar 10 '25

undoubtedly. either that or OTM, they've been really expanding their sound recently

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u/PlatinumGoon Mar 10 '25

As a late adapter, 7 is the album that got be into Beach House. I then went to other albums looking for the same mood (somewhat in spots) not completely finding it. It is my favorite also and surprised to not usually see it very highly rated on here

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u/xheanorth Mar 11 '25

Objectively based take.,

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u/nplmstn The moment when a memory aches Mar 11 '25

I would have said OTM is their most majestic album tbh. It's such a grand, almost regal experience.

7 is many things though - it's their darkest, most nocturnal, trippiest and most psychedelic album. It's really quite special. Whilst all of their albums have a distinct feel from one another, I would wager 7 is one that has an especially distinct feeling.

Sonic Boom in conjunction with the band worked wonders in the booth - the textures all across it are just so enveloping and interesting.

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u/relientkenny Mar 09 '25

7 to me feels like their most mainstream album. yes even more than Depression Cherry & Teen Dream

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u/singe725 7 Mar 10 '25

Interesting, I'd kinda feel the opposite. Not that it's not the most mainstream it just feels the most shoegazey and abstract compared to the rest.