Drab post-Valentine’s Day proverbs aside, in their comparably brief absence, and on the basis of the ebbing, flowing, gloriously luminescent comeback track Lemon Glow alone, the heart has been made to grow immeasurably fonder of the already eminently loveable Baltimore duo Beach House. Because, at turns evocative of both My Bloody Valentine and Tame Impala, Alex Scally’s lugubrious strokes continue to texture and contextualise, rather than direct and/ or define, he and Victoria Legrand’s decidedly idiosyncratic sound as she soothes in the smoothest, most euphonious of tones: “When you turn the lights down low/ Lemon colour, honey glow.” And, with the dimmer switch dialled right down to ‘Instant Seduction’, the onsetting springtime – when a new record is slated for release – now seems a whole load brighter…
Lemon Glow is available from Friday, 16th February via Bella Union.