Thank Your Lucky Stars
A darker, dustier counterpart to their usual dream pop. Stripped of massive reverbs, these songs feel intimate, nocturnal, and beautifully cold.
A darker, dustier counterpart to their usual dream pop. Stripped of massive reverbs, these songs feel intimate, nocturnal, and beautifully cold.
Surprise departure
Cold organ chords and dry, unvarnished vocals drift through the dark like smoke in an empty room. These songs trade their usual starry shimmer for a quiet, dusty, and beautifully bruised intimacy.
The duo swaps their signature starry-eyed wonder for a brooding late-night intimacy, wrapping each track in a heavy, suspenseful gloom.
Warmly received by critics, the album was widely praised for its melancholic, late-night atmosphere and a production style that felt clearer and more immediate than the band's previous releases. Reviewers broadly admired the record's emotional and sonic depth, finding it to be a different yet equally rewarding companion to its predecessor.
“Beach 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”Read review
“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”Read review
“A bright, lovely gift of an album”Read review
“Thank 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”
“Mood is the driving force, making it function best as background music, if occasionally forgettable”
“Undeniably a Beach House album, a familiar mix of warm tones and chilly sentiments”Read review
“Woozy pop with elegant hooks”Read review
“It’s a damn fine record and manages to avoid treading exactly the same ground its older sister did”Read review
“The album’s best moments come later, with a handful of boundary-pushing, project-defining numbers that don’t sound like a different band, just sound like a better version of Beach House”Read review
“The full sonic and emotional weight is tremendous”Read review
“Whereas Depression Cherry was filled with sound, dripping with synthy texture and surrounding the listener with guitar leads, Thank Your Lucky Stars is more open and spacious”Read review
“Just as rewarding as Depression Cherry, and arguably more immediate”Read review
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