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Oct 16, 2015Thank Your Lucky Stars is melancholy beauty. It’s music for late nights, for falling adrift in slow dark waters and gazing numbly at the glowing moonlight.
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Oct 27, 2015The idea that you can have too much of a good thing is thoroughly debunked with Thank Your Lucky Stars, such is the beauty of the songwriting and their uncanny ability to create an all-consuming mood.
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Oct 21, 2015This album is not like anything they have ever done, and gives music fans reason to be thankful.
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Oct 16, 2015It would have been a shame for Thank Your Lucky Stars to have been misspent or glossed over; as is, the full sonic and emotional weight is tremendous.
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Oct 16, 2015Thank You is still undeniably a Beach House album, a familiar mix of warm tones and chilly sentiments. With the imprint still fading on Depression, Thank You’s impact is undeniably dulled, causing a strange "too much of a good thing" problem.
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MojoDec 11, 2015Beach House's second album in three months underlines just how precision-stylised their frosty, often glacially-slow dream-pop has become. [Jan 2016, p.88]
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UncutDec 11, 2015Coming so soon after Depression Cherry, it would be easy to dismiss Thank Your Lucky Stars as a mere postscript, but, if anything, it's the more impressive of the pair. [Jan 2016, p.72]
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Nov 9, 2015In its own way, Thank Your Lucky Stars is just as rewarding as Depression Cherry, and arguably more immediate. Instead of releasing another mammoth effort like Bloom, they've delivered two smaller-scale triumphs that can be appreciated separately or together.
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Oct 20, 2015Beach House’s releases to date have come fogged by intoxicant, nostalgia, and hypoxia, but Thank Your Lucky Stars does what their work has begged for all along and wipes the dew from their rearview mirror. You’re going to like what you see.
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Oct 19, 2015Companion album or not, it does nothing but further cement Beach House's legacy of consistent beauty and quality.
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Oct 23, 2015At times, their formula can shade into self-imitation: "Common Girl" is a pale shadow of "On the Sea," from 2012's Bloom, going so far as to use nearly the same lovesick keyboard intro. But that's a minor misstep for a band as remarkably consistent as Beach House.
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Oct 22, 2015It's a damn fine record and manages to avoid treading exactly the same ground its older sister did.
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Oct 23, 2015As welcome as is this darker tone, the unapologetic sonic uniformity makes it difficult to pick out individual songs.
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Dec 14, 2015For while it’s hard to begrudge any quality new release by a band of Beach House’s eminence, for a fan base still attuning itself to the subtle charms of Depression Cherry, this flawed follow-up might have been better served up refined and polished at a later date.
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Nov 11, 2015Mood is the driving force, making it function best as background music, if occasionally forgettable.
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Oct 26, 2015A certain wooziness has always been the point of the Baltimore duo’s music but at times its gauzy aimlessness drifts dangerously close to torpor. More often, though, it is subtly tethered to some elegant, insidious hooks.
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Oct 21, 2015They’re untouchable in one sense, but they don’t look to be building on more than solid foundations. Threading together moments of true beauty is a nagging sense that there’s so much of this parallel universe they’ve yet to explore.
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Oct 16, 2015Thank Your Lucky Stars is definitely a treat--we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, as another new Beach House album is always welcome--but arriving so soon after Depression Cherry, it is bound to get lost in the shadow of its predecessor because frankly, it isn't nearly as compelling.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 128 out of 140
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Mixed: 7 out of 140
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Negative: 5 out of 140
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