Beach House Once Twice Melody
- Indie Pop |
- Indie Rock |
- Rock |
- Shoegaze
Release Date: February 18, 2022
Label: Sub Pop
Once Twice Melody is the eighth album from Beach House, and the first produced entirely by the band. It is a double album featuring 18 songs presented in four chapters and is available in cassette, CD, and two LP versions.
Beach House is Victoria Legrand, lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, and Alex Scally, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. They write all of their songs together.
Across the songs on Once Twice Melody, many types of style and song structures can be heard. Songs without drums, songs centered around acoustic guitar, mostly electronic songs with no guitar, wandering and repetitive melodies, songs built around the string sections. In addition to new sounds, many of the drum machines, organs, keyboards and tones that listeners may associate with previous Beach House records remain present throughout many of the compositions.
The writing and recording of the album began in 2018 and was completed in July of 2021. Most of the songs were created during this time, though a few date back over the previous 10 years. Most of the recording was done at Apple Orchard Studio in Baltimore. Once Twice Melody was mixed largely by Alan Moulder but a few tracks were also mixed by Caesar Edmunds, Trevor Spencer, and Dave Fridmann.