Four diverse albums added musical interest to summer
Bloom - Beach House (May 15) Beach House’s aptly-titled fourth studio album progresses like an algae bloom over deep water, one that washes over you and gets in your eyes and ears and mouth. Bloom takes it slow, allowing the dreamy synth, electro-drones and deliberately plodding guitar to sink in, accentuated by vocalist Victoria Legrand’s breathy, commanding alto. Individual tracks on this album are less like linear stories than they are like portraits of emotions, most commonly bittersweet wistfulness grounded in the sighs of jaded youth. This is a sentiment...