waves over Beach Housethe already veteran project (not only) dreampop of Victoria Legrand (ecclesial keyboards, voice from another planet) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards, choirs), a certain image of an evanescent group to fall asleep. But without wanting to devalue their most ethereal tendencies, they have been something else for a long time: gaseous but carnal, capable of sublimating the most diverse sonic strategies, they have simply set out to make the most powerful songs in the world.
His latest album shows like no other this breadth of vision: ‘Once twice melody’, so long that it was revealed to the world in four parts, is a bit like his ‘Tusk’ (Fleetwood Mac), a deliberately varied and excessive collection of songs. Of this they only brought us five songs to the Parc del Fòrum: that title piece of French-inspired pop, the dark ‘Pink funeral’the stellar ‘Superstar’the wonderfully dizzying ‘New romance’ and a final ‘Over and over’ that many of us would have wanted, honoring its title, to listen to on a loop until dawn.
There were only three because, as in their previous visit to Primavera Sound, Beach House once again offered a concise performance, lasting around an hour. Only one Stendhal syndrome after another, with no room for padding and not much parliament: Legrand reminded us of the need to stay hydrated and little else. To the recent successes they added a nod to the days of their first visit to the festival (‘Take care’), epic ballads that are part of the history of alternative pop (‘Lazuli’, ‘Myth’) or songs that explain the respect that the hip hop orbit feels towards them (acidic ‘Lemon glow’). In the end, feeling again of having attended something unique and unbeatable.