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7 is the third English studio album (and seventh overall, hence the title) released by Enrique Iglesias. The album was released on 25 November 2003.Enrique Iglesias wrote or co-wrote and co-produced every track on the album. Jimmy Iovine was the executive producer of the album alongside Iglesias. Iglesias told the Toronto Sun that he took special care with the songwriting on the album. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Beach House remain masters of the indefinable and their seventh album is their heaviest and most immersive-sounding of their career. 8.9/10.
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SPIN
If Beach House exhibited timidness in the construction and execution of their past music, they’ve abandoned this notion on 7—a short, precise album which is equal parts inventive and masterful.
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Rolling Stone
The Baltimore dream-pop duo come up with a thrilling LP where every surface seems perfectly polished. 4/5.
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Stereogum
Atmosphere exists with ease and nuance on 7, allowing the listener to access emotions that sift below the surface without making themselves known in any obvious way. That is the inherent value in every Beach House album, and while some rely heavily on certain emotions — Depression Cherry being the most obvious — 7 is less intuitive.
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Paste Magazine
It’s not terrible, it’s mostly pleasant to listen to, it’s beautifully produced and it’s easy to recognize the skill it takes to craft their saintly, synth-driven sound. But when you couple a critical reputation like theirs with the band’s own claim of making a big artistic jump, mostly pleasant to listen to shouldn’t cut it. By the time you arrive at the final song, “Last Ride,” the album feels like a blur—a continuous stream of bleep-bloops and achingly slow vocals—which is probably what we can expect from whatever they decide to call number eight.
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A.V. Club Music
With 7, Legrand and Scally have gotten freer themselves. This is the sound of a band that knows itself extremely well and yet, in seeking outside perspectives and embracing imperfection, has discovered a whole new level to explore. If this album feels like an alternate-reality Beach House, it’s because Legrand and Scally have altered their reality.
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Consequence of Sound
The veteran dream-pop duo deliver some of their best songs on their seventh record.
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Drowned In Sound
Beach House remain such assured masters of their own domain that you wonder whether it'd be akin to turkeys voting for Christmas to hope for a wholesale reinvention; 7 suggests that, instead, we should let them pull up the stylistic bumper at precisely their own pace. 8/10.
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The Guardian
A comparison of Legrand’s voice to the first Beach House album suggests her singing has got yet more affectless with the passing years: unless you’re concentrating like an old Beano character, with steam coming out of your ears, it’s almost impossible to hear any actual lyrics. But that’s a minor gripe: the sounds are glorious, and Beach House don’t need to tear up their own rulebook after each album.
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The Line of Best Fit
Beach House continue to make small but measured steps forward on the typically hypnotic 7. 8/10.
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The 405
Tirelessly working to achieve musical precision and a refined aesthetic, Beach House’s 7 is a release of their own limitations and an open door to broader possibilities, stripped out of strict visions.
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The Advocate
If anything, "7'' proves that even after more than 13 years together, Beach House is not merely playing by numbers. The album distills the best of Beach House so far, searches far and wide for new elements, and probes fresh depths and elevations and — to put a number on it — cranks them to 11.
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Uproxx
7 is ultimately a place you’d love to live forever, and that Beach House can both provide a reprieve from the outside world while reflecting on it is a minor miracle. Their foundation has never been more firm.
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Music OMH
7 might have been a gamble for Beach House then, but they don’t appear to have lost anything. What remains to be seen is whether they stay on the same path of progress with their next record. Closing track Last Ride might offer a hint: it starts out as the most shapeless, ethereal track of the album, but over it’s seven minute duration it gradually accumulates structure, rhythm, life. It’s as if the music is waking up from the beautiful dream of the old Beach House. 7/10.
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Variety
Listening to “7” is almost like spending time with a normally cheerful and sunny friend who’s angry at someone or something else: It’s a bit startling but not unpleasant or unwelcome, because it opens up another side to the person — and proves that they can still surprise you. 7/10.
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Soundblab
As any Beach House fan knows, their albums and songs take time to reveal themselves if they ever fully do. With all that is going on over the course of 7, that is even more so the case here. Ask any fan what their favorite of the band’s albums is and you could easily get seven different answers with this new chapter. And given the strength of the tracks here, eleven fans could argue for each of the songs on 7 being the best one and each of them would be right. A spectacularly weighty addition to their catalog in sound, feel and "girl lost to the night" content.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Never ones to stare at the floor, like the shoegazers who cooked up the ingredients that Beach House use to create, Victoria tends to stare out at the horizon during their coveted sunset sets at festivals around the world. The subtle shifts and movements on 7, show how special the sound they have truly is. The number seven is often a device of beginnings, as long as 7 isn’t an ending, I’m happy. A
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Highsnobiety
7 is a triumph, a record that might go down as the masterpiece of an already beloved band. But more than that, it shows that there is no such thing as boredom or repetition when you have the acumen, talent, and confidence to let your music create its own world, one where the rules are yours, and the journey there is just as important as the stay. 4.5/5.
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The Current
Whether you have an intimate knowledge of all their songs to this point, or this is your very first time dipping your toes into the water of their music, 7 is yet another affirmation that when we listen to Beach House, we are standing in the presence of giants.
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KEXP
There’s nothing wrong with finding your strengths, honing them, and then stretching them to their fullest while still remaining solidly in the particular world that you created and your fans love you for. That’s what Beach House have done here on 7. It's difficult to think of another band that has delivered so reliably for such a long time and they fully deserve credit for carving out space for themselves and being masters of their own hypnotic universe.
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Vulture
The life of leisure has always been filled with harsher shadows: by reflecting on their existence, Legrand and Scally have created their truest, most uneasy vision yet.
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XS Noize
They successfully shake off the compliance that can infect bands by their seventh studio album without losing the essence of what has to make Beach House so singularly brilliant.
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Sungenre
7 is an album which truly gets better upon each repeat listen and which will no doubt rank high among many music fans’ favourite albums of 2018. 4.5/5.
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Under The Radar Mag
Thanks to co-production from Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember of Spacemen 3, whose neo-psychedelic touch passes like rain showers, Beach House is reaching for the moon once more on the beloved Baltimore duo's most stimulating aural experience to date. 8.5/10.
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Treble Zine
A curiously mesmerizing contradiction of an album, 7 is a bout of elation wrapped in depressive aesthetics. It’s a focused meditation that revels in gloomy dreams. It’s a nuanced progression and, in some ways, a diversion from Beach House’s already magnificent oeuvre, brilliant in how much farther it finds Beach House willing to go.
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Refinery29
Despite its reputation, seven isn't a lucky number in numerology. Instead, it represents an intensely personal voyage for knowledge and spiritual growth. For Victoria Legrande and Alex Scally, who make up Beach House, that is exactly what their seventh album, 7, represents.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
At once, that other familiar emotion arrives: not that we might be too high, but that it must end. The words “too soon” ring out in the background, and we find ourselves fighting to hold onto the sensation, as we look across to the loved one on a perfect snow day and realize that it’s already becoming a memory, literally passing before our eyes, already a photograph that will produce as much sadness as joy. The cycle ends, the reel spins to a close, and I don’t want to wake up. 5/5.
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KLSU Now
“7” is filled with both sounds of musical darkness and sounds of musical light—sometimes heavy, sometimes strong, sometimes delicate, sometimes subdued, but no matter what, “7” does not aim to take the listener to a specific space or place, but the sensory imagery of their music and the feeling of a dream-like altered state just might make the listener find themselves wanting to take themselves to a specific space or place, wherever that place may be.
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The Irish Times
Fire all jokes into the sun – this is another great Beach House record to add to the pile.
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Slant Magazine
7 is a post-party album, a gentle, introspective comedown after a night of extroverted madness. 3.5/5.
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RIFF Magazine
Beach House has reached the musical equivalent of seventh heaven. It has created what Disintegration was for The Cure or what Heaven or Las Vegas was to the Cocteau Twins. The record surpasses seemingly unreachable levels to while cementing Legrand and Scally as musical luminaries.
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Inhailer Radio
Beach House’s 7 is bound to make you swoon and, if you’re already a fan, fall deeper down the well with them. This is a band that creates depth of feeling effortlessly. They know how to create a mood, that despite the surface level melancholic tones, can feel euphoric, introspective, and warm. From the minute 7 begins, you’re transported to a dream world--a celestial and formless world, where it’s always okay to feel your feelings--all of Beach House’s making.
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DIY Mag
A gorgeous, irreplaceable atmosphere washes over anything they play. 3/5.
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Exclaim!
Minor evolutions aside, there's not a whole lot to set 7 apart from the six albums that preceded it, making it easy to see this as just another Beach House album. Don't take them for granted, since it's hard to think of another band that has delivered so reliably for this long. 8/10.
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Entertainment Weekly
While multi-instrumentalist Alex Scally paints his pillowy soundscapes, keyboardist-vocalist Victoria Legrand floats above it all, musing on “the color of your mind” and “skinny angels making eyes.” 7‘s artful wooziness is hardly new, but for Beach House, it feels like home. B+
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Too Many Blogs
Whilst the journey you take with 7 is vibrant and beautiful, it’s not entirely new. Some songs are definitely reminiscent of previous albums but it’s easy to let this minor gripe go when you reach the end of the record. Album closer ‘The Last Ride’ is a culmination of the record and everything Beach House excels in: haunting synths, hypnotic shoegaze drums and sublime vocals. It’s a song that makes you feel like you’ve reached the end, but makes you want to go back and start all over again. It’s like sitting down and watching the sunset knowing you’ll be back again tomorrow, with the perfect soundtrack in tow.
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The Sunflower
Across the tracks, one pattern is clear: Beach House’s music is more tangible than ever. Guitar and drums sit comfortably at the front of the mix alongside Legrand’s vocals, which shift between the spotlight and the background as each track demands. It’s quite likely that “7” will find Beach House with their feet planted firmly on the ground. Yet given the charged and dynamic nature of these early offerings, it’s likely they’ll manage to reach the same heights as before. While the direction may have changed, the destination – bliss – remains the same.
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Sputnik Music
Come for the locales... stay for the incredible sensations that lie within. 4.5/5.
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Glide Magazine
They have mastered their tried and true formula to the point where they can transcend it with boldness. The result is a beautiful album that cements Beach House as worthy of the contemporaries they draw on with such reverence. 8/10.
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Vulture Hound
ranks among Beach House’s finest works, packing an impressive collection of tracks that could become high-water marks with time. If Teen Dream, Devotion, and Bloom are described as being Beach House’s best albums, then 7 has certainly earned a spot at the table in that discussion. The duo have managed to shake-off their limitations and embrace the elements that’s kept them consistent for so long – all with the desired effect of having you drift away into your dreams over and over again. 4/5.
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The Fire Note
Beach House puts out another very good album. 4/5.
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Independent
Instead of limiting themselves, Beach House are finally embracing all of their creative moments, which have inevitably challenged them to become better artists. 4/5.
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Cryptic Rock
The lovely daydream has ended. Counting seven sheep is done. Time to close your eyes, this time for a real dreamy excursion into the slumber of the night. For, tomorrow is another day, to play 7 once again. CrypticRock gives Beach House’s latest offering 4 out of 5 stars.
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Crack Magazine
While the record is mostly hookless, gaseous in form, it doesn’t disarm them. The main takeaway is a feeling of rose-tinted catharsis, and whether or not it’s shared with the listener, a point remains, more obvious than ever: Beach House refuse to compromise their agency over their sound. With 7, Beach House continue to prove that if you say something quietly enough, people will lean in. 7/10.
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All Music
That these songs sound like they came from different albums is ultimately more refreshing than disorienting, and the excitement that courses through each track is palpable. Scally and Legrand could have only made 7 at this point in their career -- not only do they have the skill to change things up, but the wisdom to know how and when to do so. 4/5.
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LONDON IN STEREO
7 is arguably their freshest sounding and texturally-rich set since 2010’s breakthrough Teen Dream.
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Star Tribune
All in all, "7'' distills the best of Beach House so far, searches far and wide for new elements and probes fresh depths and elevations and — to put a number on it — cranks them up to 11.
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Clash Magazine
Some artists hold the promise of a perfect album within them, one stroke of divinity that distils a lifetime’s output into something that could define their legacy. Beach House never felt like one of those bands to me, partly because they’d already soared so high, already peaked on a former glory. Nonetheless, the Baltimore duo have somehow gifted us their masterpiece, and though the rain outside has now stopped, new heavens have opened. 9/10.
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The Skinny
While the fruits of their reinvention aren't always compelling here, 7 is still a solid first step heralding Beach House's next phase. 3/5.
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No More Workhouse
7 is subtly co-produced by Sonic Boom, introducing some stylistic alterations to the slow-burning buzz of synthesizer and textured guitar. Rather than coasting on what they do best, LeGrand and Scally have taken a more experimental approach on 7, embracing a friction and a playfulness within their music without forsaking their lush cinematic soundtrack.
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Live Wire 1350
The album doesn't overstay its welcome and as with all Beach House albums, 7 is the perfect length to keep the listener engaged without letting them get bored of the driving guitar loops. 7 is a celebration of the Beach House sound, offering new thrills for die hard fans as well as the classic driving guitars and ethereal vocals that will attract new listeners. 9/10.
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Metro Weekly
A response to anxieties and fears of the modern age, 7 is more grounded in the material world than much of what we have come to expect from Beach House. While it is an intelligent and purposeful meditation on the present state of the world, the album strikes a hopeful note, asking and then answering the questions, where are we, and where do we go from here? Beach House’s soundscapes have always been dreamy, escapist fantasies, but with this album they have put forth a hopeful message of rebirth, a simple perfection rising out of darkness and chaos.
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The Edge
Beach House ascend to seventh heaven with an album that challenges the preconceptions of their sound - a modern classic for the dream pop genre. 5/5.
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Medium
The use of slide guitar here, as the album draws to a close, even inspires a lingering, dream-like sentiment as the track fades out. Is it a coincidence that this song is 7 minutes long? Perhaps. Or maybe Beach House are just “making mountains out of nothingness”.
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Amino Apps
This is easily one of their more mainstream efforts to date in my opinion, and their selection in singles (Lemon Glow, Dive, Dark Spring and Black Car) were worthy songs to show what the album would exhibit. I commend the experimentation on this project and would highly recommend it to both older fans and newcomers to the genre.
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The Student Playlist
However, for those who were expecting a sudden change of direction from the Baltimore based duo, 7 might not necessarily be it, but it is more than enough for the fans of the dreamiest pair in pop music. 8/10.
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Totally Dublin
There’s certainly reason to return to 7 as it manages to reclaim some of the mystic that captivated audiences nearly a decade ago.
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Radio UTD
7 not only handles the delicate task of pushing the band’s sound while still sounding like a Beach House record, it gives some of their strongest material to date, making 7 a very strong contender for the best album of their discography.
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Northern Transmissions
By taking familiar ideas and filtering them through new arrangements and effects, the band has taken their identity in their own hands and reshaped it into something intriguing again for their strongest album since Bloom. 9/10.
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Backseat Mafia
Sonic Boom succeeds in expanding Beach House’s carefully-curated musical world without shaking things up too much. His touch is felt in the denser low end and noisier aspects of some of these songs, but this is still very much a Beach House album. It nods to Phil Spector-like sonics, 4AD melancholy, and an otherworldly feel that Beach House have perfected. 7 is an absolute stunning record of dark beauty and melancholy mood, and one of their best albums yet. 8.7/10.
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The Needle Drop
Beach House bounces back with their most adventurous album since Teen Dream.
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Earbuddy
Musically, it tops off the album with an exhilarating high; giving us a happy ending in a way. It also leaves us looking forward, anticipating what Legrand and Scally do next during this new era of Beach House. 7.8/10.
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Richer Sounds Blog
Overall, the dream pop rockers have created an album to be very proud of. It’s not without its weaker moments or areas of self-indulgence that tends to be the foible more of their indie influences than many other genres – but really, not many albums are. 7/10.
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Albumism
After a decade, their sound isn’t at all tired. How have they crafted so many beautiful albums, aging much better than several of their peers, out of gently leaning on an organ? It’s shoegaze, dream pop, whatever you choose to call it, but still uniquely Beach House and done to perfection. 4.5/5.
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Galway Advertiser
Whereas early Beach House works were so delicate they were in danger of evaporating, there is a strong beating heart underlying the songs on this and more recent albums, providing firm foundations from which the duo can create. Admittedly it does not hit the heights of 2015's Thank Your Lucky Stars, but there remains enough to show shoegaze has plenty left to reveal to indie fans.
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Philly
Guided by Legrand's lovely vocals, the lyrics focus on beauty that is either decaying or threatened. A few tracks drift gently and passively, but many others build to something dramatic, whether in the layered voices of "L'Inconnue," in the cathartic guitars that explode midway through "Dive," or in the gorgeous choruses of the synth-pop ballad "Woo" and the forceful "Last Ride."
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Spectrum Pulse
In short, this is the sort of thematically rich and varied project from Beach House shows exactly how much the band is capable of when they test the limits of their formula - they may have held or accentuated balanced poise before, but breaking it leads to something far more intriguing and potent, and I'm thrilled how much the band was willing to challenge it. It's not a perfect release - some of the synth and guitar tones don't quite mesh as well as they could, and I still think Beach House could have cut loose even further and I'd have been entirely on-board - but as it is this is a great record, netting an 8/10 from me and absolutely a rec.
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It's All Dead
This is nothing short of a beautiful album. Each track is essential to explaining the ideas and perspective Legrand and Scally put into our minds and thought processes, which is difficult to accomplish with a first album, never mind number seven. It’s lyrically thought-provoking and the soundscape is enthralling. Is it their best album? Maybe. It’s hard to compare Beach House’s albums because they’re all dynamic in their own way. 7 is simply the perfect addition to a wonderfully diverse catalog. 4.5/5.
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Loud and Quiet
These wider influences are enough to incrementally develop the band’s immersive sound, with the listener becoming enveloped in its rolling waves of blissful melancholia.
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SLUG Magazine
Although 7’s lyrics are sometimes vague and imagery-dense, a smoldering feminist message seems to lurk beneath their surface in several songs alongside an undercurrent of frustration and ferocity. Beach House are not crass or heavy-handed in their narrative, and their sound balances their words beautifully. 7 feels natural and thoughtful, yet it never over- or underwhelms, containing just enough clever sonic adornment and intelligent wordplay. Beach House appear to have done it again and done it differently, crafting a sonic tapestry that awes the ear yet holds steady tension with accessibility and experimentation. 7 may be the strongest dream pop/shoegaze opus to land this year, and a lovely way to accompany the warmer months of a continuously complicated cultural era.
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Yahoo!
Listening to “7” is almost like spending time with a normally cheerful and sunny friend who’s angry at someone or something else: It’s a bit startling but not unpleasant or unwelcome, because it opens up another side to the person — and proves that they can still surprise you.
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Young Post
While there are glimmers of hope, Beach House seem to be on autopilot, churning out weak imitations of themselves.
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Phawker
7 is by far the dream pop duo's most complicated and mature record yet.
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WICKEDD CHILDD
Beach House’s 7 keeps its stagnant beauty throughout, perfectly in balance with its heavier, darker moments — it’s one to come back to for years to come.
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QRO Magazine
Baltimore’s Beach House have dubbed their seventh release 7, and if they don’t pop like they did when they were kids, it is a consistent continuation of their airy musical style.
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Lemon Wire
The minute you put on “7,” the album demands your attention. Even as it washes over itself, becoming unreal and undefinable, it leverages power over you, invading your consciousness and inviting you to sink deeper inside of it. The constant yearning that you’ve always felt exists inside of this place, where you realize that everything you’ve ever wanted has never been clear, but a place in a daydream that is constantly ebbing and flowing between the edges of your reality. Beach House draws you into their sonic experiments on that very edge. 7.5/10.
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High Clouds
Beach House shake things up on "7" without losing their magical charm. 8/10.
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WPTS Radio
It is impressive how good Beach House is at opening and closing an album, and the great pacing of the album adds to this novel-like quality. 7 is on par with some of Beach House’s best releases, and if this really is the last ride, they ended on a high note.
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The Aquarian
These are the types of songs that I want to hear on the radio. These are the types of songs that make a new record stand out. These are the types of songs that prove that a little change isn’t always a bad thing.
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Life4Ever
If their self-crafted press release is anything to go by, Beach House’s new album is the essence of serendipity.
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All Things Loud
7 is their most ambitious record in years, arguably since 2012’s Bloom. They’ve continuously proven that they’re one of indie’s most reliable acts, and on the release of this album they have opened new doors for themselves, expanding their horizons 12 years into their discography. But the goal remains the same: Legrand and Scally force you to unfold your very own dreamy no man’s land with an eerie sense of comfort. 8.5/10.
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Dusted Magazine
7 extends on Depression Cherry, but it carries its own vaguely collagist aesthetic, and it also sounds wiser. It’s as if Depression Cherry was three years older. No part of 7 is out of stride with the rest of Beach House’s output; most of the album provides songwriting on par with anything else the band has released. If you consider this complacency, it will feel particularly sore during the album’s weaker parts where it sounds like ideas have cycled through and run thin.
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Sounds and Books
This is certainly the best in Beach House's thirteen year career.
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Pasatiempo
Beach House’s 7is the most aggressive album (relative to their catalogue, anyway) and one made for headphones, rich with minor details that slowly emerge from the mix like a sailboat in a “magic eye” poster.
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c-ville
For 7, Beach House returns to a dreamy mode, but it’s not the private reverie of yore; the wistfulness here is epic, almost overbearing. Victoria Legrand’s voice is borne to us on swelling storm clouds, even on relatively relaxed nuggets “Pay No Mind” and “Lose Your Smile.” And it’s anyone’s guess what’s up with the incessant warbly mechanical chirp on “Lemon Glow.”
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The 13th Floor
Over 13 years and six albums, Beach House have by now managed to thoroughly capture their sound. Each album was incrementally more adventurous than the previous offering, but they’ve never done a complete sonic shift. A welcome step from an excellent band. But I’d still love to see them leap.
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Recommended Listen
Beach House’s magic power is their ability to transform that darkness into an unsuspecting beauty. 7 often confronts such instances fit for these tumultuous times by embracing the ability for empathy and love to grow out of that trauma, and captures the free-fall from resistance into giving in with a lightness.
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Vada Magazine
Six albums by the same band where sonically little has changed could reasonably be considered as enough, certainly, but Beach House have exceeded the expectations placed on them constantly and on 7 they positively, thrillingly, outstrip them completely.
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The Daily Emerald
‘7’ is Beach House’s most candid, paradoxical album yet.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Even though 7 contains two more tracks than both of its predecessors, there’s hardly a song on here that could be labelled “filler.” The album as a whole flows extremely well, and removing one track would certainly disrupt the experience. Although I wouldn’t be quick to proclaim 7 as my favorite Beach House record (its a toss up between Devotion and Bloom), it’s still one of the duo’s most bold efforts in recent memory.
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The Sunday Times
The Baltimore duo Beach House hit a sweet spot in 2010 with Teen Dream, a perfect blend of melodic pop, gauzy atmosphere and restrained emotion. One wonders if they will find it again. 2/5.
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The Bridge
Beach House is able to take spending time with a normally cheery, happy friend who is pissed at someone or something startling, or possibly unpleasant, but you are able to see another side to that friend, and put it in an album.
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Culture Hash
While I don’t think 7 is on the same level as their classic three albums (Teen Dream, Bloom, Depression Cherry) this is still a great journey. Beach House focus on the overall vibe of their projects and 7 is best consumed in a single sitting, rather than picking out individual tracks.
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STACK
Beach House have well and truly cemented themselves as one of the most mesmerising acts making contemporary music, their concoction of enticing vocals and richly-textured instrumentation hard to resist.
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Baltimore Magazine
Long shrouded in a sort of melancholic mystery, their music steps out of the shadows and into the luminous possibilities that lie ahead.
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Flood Magazine
With 7, Beach House has done nothing to disturb their status as one of indie rock’s most consistent bands. They’ve done a whole lot, though, to demonstrate a willingness to reimagine what it is that Beach House can be. 9/10.
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Music OMH
Such is its air of familiarity and predictability. It’s hard to see it earning Enrique many new followers though.
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All Music
7 is a solid pop album from an artist with someone to seduce, if not something to say.
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Pop Matters
This record flows smoothly from beginning to end, no one song standing out amongst the upbeat and danceable tunes and the slick-but-tender ballads.
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Bol
Really a super cd.After a song 2 times to have heard you are addicted to it.
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Music Pop Stars
With SEVEN, Iglesias delivers one of his most High-energy album, distilling the sequencers, wall of guitars, tinkling wind chimes, and dramatic vocals into a cohesive and exhilarating whole.
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Sort Music
It will be nearly impossible to resist singing along with more than a few of these gems even after one listen. Rock on.
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Napster
Mix that with quasi-urban beats, rock guitar, and the occasional ballad and voila: hit record. This should (finally) make his father proud.
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Pandora
7 is a solid pop album from an artist with someone to seduce, if not something to say.
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Music Magpie
Positioning Iglesias as not only a drop-dead pop crooner who whispers everything middle-aged housewives want to hear, but also as a hip, knowing postmodern vocalist.
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Slacker
His production team deftly arranges the hipness while he can remain the earnest balladeer.
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