Listen: Beach House Present ‘Bloom’ Album Stream

Beach House told us in a recent interview that they ‘wanted to present this album in a really specific way.’ Well, now it appears that they are doing just that.

The duo are now streaming the album in full over on NPR.

Speaking to DIY, the band said of the album’s recent leak: ‘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.’

Read the interview in full in the latest issue of DIY.

The band’s follow-up to the brilliant 2010 release ‘Teen Dream’ 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