“Norway” by Beach House is a psychedelic, soft-edged hybrid of chamber-pop, art rock and electro-indie from their debut album Teen Dream. Bearing forth with MGMT or Cajun Dance Party style dual-vocalists, and melancholic Hawaiian-esque synths, Norway is a floating, humid track with obviously dilated pupils. The current trend in US indie music to stand away from urbanite influences is alive here in the band’s name – and in their musical contemporaries, Woods.
As well as following this burgeoning movement, Beach House have taken clear stylistic footnotes from Fleet Foxes’ hymnal eponymous debut in 2008. Norway is trippy, emotive and kaleidoscopic - and hauntingly, colourfully, beautiful. This is transporting, intoxicating and dream-inducing music at its best.
Genius recommends; My Bloody Valentine, Volcano Choir, Best Coast, Wild Beasts, Real Estate
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