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Once Twice Melody
Once Twice Melody is the eighth studio album by the American dream pop duo Beach House. It was released on February 18, 2022, through Sub Pop, with its four chapters being released throughout four months starting November 10, 2021. A follow-up of their seventh studio album 7 (2018), they began recording the album in 2018 at their home studio, Apple Orchard Studio, in Baltimore, with additional recording taking place at Pachyderm Studio, United Studio and Village Recorders until July 2021.
A double album of 18 songs, Once Twice Melody is presented in four chapters with several musical styles being used throughout, including dream pop, neo-psychedelia and chamber pop. Upon release, the album received universal acclaim by music critics, and debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 24,000 album-equivalent units. To support the album, "Once Twice Melody", "Hurts to Love" and "Superstar" were released as singles. Beach House additionally embarked the Once Twice Melody Tour in 2022, in support of the album.
On June 30, 2017, the band released the compilation album B-Sides and Rarities, which was done after realizing that they had many non-album songs that were either previously unreleased or were hard to find. They also stated that releasing the 14-track compilation album helped them "clean the creative closet, put the past to bed, and start anew." On May 11, 2018, Beach House released their seventh studio album 7 (2018), where they wanted to reassess their old methods, limiting their writing to arrangements that they were able to perform live and eventually deciding to follow what came naturally, adding that they let their creative spirits determine the album's feeling.
After releasing 7, the band began recording their next album at Apple Orchard Studio in Baltimore. It was then announced in February 2021 that they would contribute to arts company Meow Wolf's interactive exhibition Omega Mart, releasing a short film titled "Marin's Dreams" on April 22, 2021. In the same month, guitarist Alex Scally revealed, in an interview with Rolling Stone, that him and lead vocalist Victoria Legrand were thinking of working on an eighth album, adding that they would "like to get there". On November 9, 2021, the band officially announced their eighth album as Once Twice Melody, and stated that it would be released in four chapters throughout four months.
In a September 2021 interview with 101.9 KINK FM, the band revealed that they were working on their album during the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that it would be released in 2022. Regarding its recording process, while the duo were writing the album's songs and their melodies, they noticed a high usage in string synthesizers and had experimented with strings on various songs to see if they "wanted" them. In order to record the album, Scally had taught himself to be an audio engineer, handling the recording for Legrand's vocals, which took a five-month period that ended in late 2021. Live string arrangements were handled by David Campbell; along with those, live drums were recorded in Los Angeles, with the album's mixing being handled by four mixing engineers, including Alan Moulder.
Well, the idea of chapters was something that emerged. If you think about the beginning of making this record to now, it's been three years and two of those years were writing and writing and writing, then recording and processing, doing all of this building; all of the architecture and the blood and muscle tissue, the bones.
Once Twice Melody is a double album, with its material being described as dream pop, neo-psychedelia and chamber pop. Throughout the album, there are tracks without live drums, electronic songs without guitar, and "wandering and repetitive melodies", as described by Beach House; additionally, it is their first album where a live string ensemble was used and the first to be produced entirely by the band. "Runaway" uses a vocoder throughout the song and "Only You Know" is a shoegaze track, while "Masquerade" and "Finale" have been described as "'80s synth-pop" tracks.
Split into four chapters, the band's lead vocalist Legrand explained to Consequence that there is not a "right" way to listen to the album, adding that "you can just get lost [in the album] how you want to". Scally stated that they split the songs into four chapters based on "the energy of the music [and] the lyrics". According to Legrand, the album features "a lot of love inside of it", as well as "a sacredness of nature"; with lyrical themes revolving around self-destruction and romance, she also described the album as having "multiple little universes inside it".
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Once Twice Melody
Once Twice Melody is the eighth studio album by the American dream pop duo Beach House. It was released on February 18, 2022, through Sub Pop, with its four chapters being released throughout four months starting November 10, 2021. A follow-up of their seventh studio album 7 (2018), they began recording the album in 2018 at their home studio, Apple Orchard Studio, in Baltimore, with additional recording taking place at Pachyderm Studio, United Studio and Village Recorders until July 2021.
A double album of 18 songs, Once Twice Melody is presented in four chapters with several musical styles being used throughout, including dream pop, neo-psychedelia and chamber pop. Upon release, the album received universal acclaim by music critics, and debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 24,000 album-equivalent units. To support the album, "Once Twice Melody", "Hurts to Love" and "Superstar" were released as singles. Beach House additionally embarked the Once Twice Melody Tour in 2022, in support of the album.
On June 30, 2017, the band released the compilation album B-Sides and Rarities, which was done after realizing that they had many non-album songs that were either previously unreleased or were hard to find. They also stated that releasing the 14-track compilation album helped them "clean the creative closet, put the past to bed, and start anew." On May 11, 2018, Beach House released their seventh studio album 7 (2018), where they wanted to reassess their old methods, limiting their writing to arrangements that they were able to perform live and eventually deciding to follow what came naturally, adding that they let their creative spirits determine the album's feeling.
After releasing 7, the band began recording their next album at Apple Orchard Studio in Baltimore. It was then announced in February 2021 that they would contribute to arts company Meow Wolf's interactive exhibition Omega Mart, releasing a short film titled "Marin's Dreams" on April 22, 2021. In the same month, guitarist Alex Scally revealed, in an interview with Rolling Stone, that him and lead vocalist Victoria Legrand were thinking of working on an eighth album, adding that they would "like to get there". On November 9, 2021, the band officially announced their eighth album as Once Twice Melody, and stated that it would be released in four chapters throughout four months.
In a September 2021 interview with 101.9 KINK FM, the band revealed that they were working on their album during the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that it would be released in 2022. Regarding its recording process, while the duo were writing the album's songs and their melodies, they noticed a high usage in string synthesizers and had experimented with strings on various songs to see if they "wanted" them. In order to record the album, Scally had taught himself to be an audio engineer, handling the recording for Legrand's vocals, which took a five-month period that ended in late 2021. Live string arrangements were handled by David Campbell; along with those, live drums were recorded in Los Angeles, with the album's mixing being handled by four mixing engineers, including Alan Moulder.
Well, the idea of chapters was something that emerged. If you think about the beginning of making this record to now, it's been three years and two of those years were writing and writing and writing, then recording and processing, doing all of this building; all of the architecture and the blood and muscle tissue, the bones.
Once Twice Melody is a double album, with its material being described as dream pop, neo-psychedelia and chamber pop. Throughout the album, there are tracks without live drums, electronic songs without guitar, and "wandering and repetitive melodies", as described by Beach House; additionally, it is their first album where a live string ensemble was used and the first to be produced entirely by the band. "Runaway" uses a vocoder throughout the song and "Only You Know" is a shoegaze track, while "Masquerade" and "Finale" have been described as "'80s synth-pop" tracks.
Split into four chapters, the band's lead vocalist Legrand explained to Consequence that there is not a "right" way to listen to the album, adding that "you can just get lost [in the album] how you want to". Scally stated that they split the songs into four chapters based on "the energy of the music [and] the lyrics". According to Legrand, the album features "a lot of love inside of it", as well as "a sacredness of nature"; with lyrical themes revolving around self-destruction and romance, she also described the album as having "multiple little universes inside it".