Beach House: ‘We Wanted To Present This Record In A Really Specific Way’

Beach House recently spoke to DIY about the discovery that their latest album - ‘Bloom’ - had leaked onto the internet well before its release.

“Musically speaking, we wanted to present this record to the world in a really specific way and I think that’s our right as artists,’ begins one half of the duo, Alex Scally. ‘And the greedy internet took it away from us.’

Primarily, it seems as though their frustrations stem from the fact that the leaked album was, in fact, a low quality version of their fourth effort.

‘All of our big fans have now heard the record in a bad form. The songs have been sped up and shortened. It was low quality, with no artwork, no lyrics. You know, so all the things we wanted to give people - these people who are really great to us, they’re our biggest fans and we wanted them to hear the record in a certain way - they’re hearing it in this shitty other way.”

But the real shame, in the eyes of Scally? The magic that has been lost with the lack of respect for the physical nature of their piece of art: “I used to love that. When I was a kid, I loved that so much; looking forward to the date; going and getting it - only having heard one song from it - getting it home. It’s true. It’s been totally lost.”

You can read the whole interview with Beach House in the new issue of DIY Magazine.

The band’s follow-up to the brilliant 2010 release ‘Teen Dream’, which is scheduled to drop on 14th May.

The record was recorded in late 2011 at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas before being mixed at the Electric Lady Studios in New York. The band co-produced the record with Chris Coady, after an extensive writing process took place in the band’s home town of Baltimore.

The confirmed tracklisting is as follows.

1. Myth
2. Wild
3. Lazuli
4. Other People
5. The Hours
6. Troublemaker
7. New Year
8. Wishes
9. On The Sea
10. Irene

Beach House have also announced plans to play two UK shows during May, before returning to London in November.

MAY
23 Brighton, The Haunt
24 London, Village Underground

NOVEMBER
02 The Roundhouse, London