Beach House released a new EP on Record Store Day 2023 and I take a look in this vinyl unboxing video. Released in April 2023 on Sub Pop Records, this particular version comes on clear wax as a “limited edition” Record Store Day “exclusive” pressing. I get into those air […]
Is the new Beach House EP, “Become,” worthy of your collection? In this album review, I share my thoughts. The new 2023 EP by the powerful indie and dream pop duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally has five songs, and I touch on them all. The EP debuted on Record […]
Continuing on my Beach House craze, I’m looking at all eight of their LPs and ranking them worst to best. “Worst” is a bit of a misnomer here, as they’re all pretty decent. To date, the band has given us eight studio albums, dating all the way back to 2006 […]
Anthony Fantano gave the new Slowdive album Everything Is Alive an abysmal 6/10 in his album review. Today, I’m sharing why I think that’s flat out WRONG. Fantano follows more than 30 years of music critics lambasting the original era shoegaze band Slowdive, and frankly I’m sick of it! I […]
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In January of 2010, indie and dream pop duo Beach House had made the jump to Sub Pop Records, releasing their third album, Teen Dream. In this video, I dig into the album history, from the group’s 2004 formation through the release of their first two albums on Carpark Records, […]
👉 Subscribe for weekly music history videos: https://youtube.com/c/AndyFenstermaker/?sub_confirmation=1 It’s time to go deep into the history and story of Misery is a Butterfly, the 2004 album by Blonde Redhead. We’ll go deep, exploring the band’s noise pop origins and their move from Smells Like to Touch & Go. For Misery, […]
