Beach House 7

4 stars out of 5 -- "The lead single, 'Lemon Glow,' signaled that Legrand and Scally were serious about evolving. With its synths pulsing in bold, outrageous color, it's a radical blast of psychedelic pop bliss."
"[O]n 7, the group's shortest, most accomplished, and confident record, Beach House has finally leaned into the sheer force of their music."
Billboard - "[A]ny weight is tempered by the melodic effervescence listeners have come to expect from a band that always shines a light into the darkness."
Paste (magazine) - "The layers of drowsy sound and whirring synth that anchor 'Dark Spring' and 'Dive' whir with a fascinating moving-stillness..."
Paste (magazine) - "7's most evocative characteristic is how chameleonic it is, how the album so perfectly encapsulates every Beach House project preceding it. Somewhere, everything clicked, and the duo discovered how to be as dark as they were heavenly."
Pitchfork (Website) - "Beach House remain masters of the indefinable and their seventh album is their heaviest and most immersive-sounding of their career."
Clash (Magazine) - "[I]t's the spread of tracks that run from the morphine swell of 'L'Innconue' to the heartbroken fantasy of 'Last Ride' that overwhelm here, their cumulative grandeur almost more than the heart can bear in one sitting....[A] masterpiece..."