Beach House: Teen Dream | CD review

(Bella Union)With their third album, the Baltimore duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally throw themselves on the ever-growing pile of American bands going for the heartstrings via a kind of wide-eyed, epic psych-pop. What separates Beach House from Real Estate, Girls, the Antlers et al is, well, not much really, aside from a tendency toward some polite electronic interventions and a consistently slow-than-average pace. It's carefully, even beautifully arranged – all burnished shimmers a...

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