SHUGO TOKUMARU

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Their music was like waltzing wedding cake models in a music box; the sound of atrophied romance, obscure regrets and flickering confetti set to a shoegaze siren call that brought to mind the likes of Mazzy Star and Slowdive whilst gently asserting a hushed authority all of its own.

Devotion resonates with the same formless essence as its predecessor, but also far exceeds it in both composition and execution. The funereal organ and sparse, chintzy beats remain, but the sound is more fleshed-out and vivid with harpsichord and lushly textured keys, Alex Scally’s slide guitar in particular more languidly expressive than ever, as if tracing the curves of old flames on the brilliant ‘Gila’.

To say this record elevates the band far above the swollen ranks of shuffling shoegazers currently doing the rounds is putting it mildly – in Devotion, Beach House have created as profound an invocation of the sacred and the sentimental as you’re ever likely to hear. – Drowned in Sound

with:
Lazarus
Shugo Tokumaru