7 - Album

Frogtoon Music Album Info: 7

Published: 05 May 2018, 15:16

7 Is The Seventh Studio Album By American Dream Pop Duo Beach House. The Band Have The Following To Say About It "7 Is Our 7th Full-Length Record. At Its Release We Will Have Been A Band For Over 13 Years. We Have Now Written And Released A Total Of 77 Songs Together. Last Year We Released An Album Of B-Sides And Rarities. It Felt Like A Good Step For Us. It Helped Us Clean The Creative Closet Put The Past To Bed And Start Anew. Throughout The Process Of Recording 7 Our Goal Was Rebirth And Rejuvenation. We Wanted To Rethink Old Methods And Shed Some Self-Imposed Limitations. In The Past We Often Limited Our Writing To Parts That We Could Perform Live. On 7 We Decided To Follow Whatever Came Naturally. As A Result There Are Some Songs With No Guitar And Some Without Keyboard. There Are Songs With Layers And Production That We Could Never Recreate Live And That Is Exciting To Us. Basically We Let Our Creative Moods Instead Of Instrumentation Dictate The Album’s Feel. In The Past The Economics Of Recording Have Dictated That We Write For A Year Go To The Studio And Record The Entire Record As Quickly As Possible. We Have Always Hated This Because By The Time The Recording Happens A Certain Excitement About Older Songs Has Often Been Lost. This Time We Built A "home" Studio And Began All Of The Songs There. Whenever We Had A Group Of 3-4 Songs That We Were Excited About We Would Go To A “proper” Recording Studio And Finish Recording Them There. This Way The Amount Of Time Between The Original Idea And The Finished Song Was Pretty Short Of The Album’s 11 Songs 8 Were Finished At Carriage House In Stamford CT And 2 At Palmetto Studio In Los Angeles . 7 Didn’t Have A Producer In The Traditional Sense. We Much Preferred This As It Felt Like The Ideas Drove The Creativity Not Any One Person’s Process. James Barone Who Became Our Live Drummer In 2016 Played On The Entire Record. His Tastes And The Trust We Have In Him Really Helped Us Keep Rhythm At The Center Of A Lot Of These Songs. We Also Worked With Sonic Boom Peter Kember . Peter Became A Great Force On This Record In The Shedding Of Conventions And In Helping To Keep The Songs Alive Fresh And Protected From The Destructive Forces Of Recording Studio Over-Production/over-Perfection. The Societal Insanity Of 2016-17 Was Also Deeply Influential As It Must Be For Most Artists These Days. Looking Back There Is Quite A Bit Of Chaos Happening In These Songs And A Pervasive Dark Field That We Had Little Control Over. The Discussions Surrounding Women’s Issues Were A Constant Source Of Inspiration And Questioning. The Energy Lyrics And Moods Of Much Of This Record Grew From Ruminations On The Roles Pressures And Conditions That Our Society Places On Women Past And Present. The Twisted Double Edge Of Glamour With Its Perils And Perfect Moments Was An Endless Source See “L’Inconnue ” “Drunk In LA ” “Woo ” “Girl Of The Year ” “Last Ride” . In A More General Sense We Are Interested By The Human Mind's And Nature’s Tendency To Create Forces Equal And Opposite To Those Present. Thematically This Record Often Deals With The Beauty That Arises In Dealing With Darkness The Empathy And Love That Grows From Collective Trauma The Place One Reaches When They Accept Rather Than Deny See “Dark Spring ” “Pay No Mind ” “Lemon Glow ” “Dive ” “Black Car ” “Lose Your Smile” . The Title 7 Itself Is Simply A Number That Represents Our Seventh Record. We Hoped Its Simplicity Would Encourage People To Look Inside. No Title Using Words That We Could Find Felt Like An Appropriate Summation Of The Album. The Number 7 Does Represent Some Interesting Connections In Numerology. 1 And 7 Have Always Shared A Common Look So 7 Feels Like The Perfect Step In The Sequence To Act As A Restart Or “semi-First.” Most Early Religions Also Had A Fascination With 7 As Being The Highest Level Of Spirituality As In "Seventh Heaven.” At Our Best Creative Moments We Felt We Were Channeling Some Kind Of Heavy Truth And We Sincerely Hope The Listeners Will Feel That. Much Love Beach House"