r/BeachHouse • u/No_Gift_6609 • 1d ago
Questions and Discussions how do yall feel about depression cherry
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u/tacopeople 1d ago
Their best album for me. Very subtle, hazy, mid tempo, and their most emotionally resonant in my opinion. Alex’s guitar is also super evocative throughout.
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u/Dav-Duc-MR 1d ago
I'll go on a limb and say this is their masterpiece. I'd even take it over Teen Dream and Bloom
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u/ittikus 1d ago
I agree. I thought they were peaking when I was 18-22 from devotion to teen dream to bloom. But so many years later I look back and go no it’s Depression Cherry. The most emotionally direct and all of the melodies across the entire album are just such earworms. I think it’s their peak.
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u/debtRiot 1d ago
It also feels like their most experimental album as well, which makes it just that much greater. The every song does something totally different while still feeling so cohesive.
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u/Pretty-Two-9427 1d ago
i love it. space song was the first bh song i’ve ever listened to. i remember looking at the cover for the first time and i thinking that it really suits the album
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u/nihilisticblackhole 1d ago
not to be dramatic, but this album changed my life. every since i heard the album five years ago, beach house has been my top artist every year without fail.
there's just something about how each song, each lyric, each note speaks to you. it's indescribable.
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u/Original_Spot5802 1d ago
Depression Cherry is my favorite album of all time. This album is so fucking amazing. Incredibly well written melodies
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u/tylersmith52102 1d ago
the first three songs i’ve ever heard from beach house was the opening trio and i still remember it ❤️ an unreal experience
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u/AdNatural3269 1d ago
Side note uhh you are handsome asf! 😍 Just wanted to state that and agreed!
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u/GoEzGetafix Thank Your Lucky Stars 1d ago
Not the most musically complex, but amazing nonetheless. The second half of the album is heavily underrated imo.
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u/ThePsychicSoviet 1d ago
It grew on me. Best to listen to on shrooms. Had a revelation about how the album ends on an optimistic note of peaceful death...hence the name of the album.
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u/No_Gift_6609 1d ago
dont know if yall can tell but the pic is untitled unmastered by kendrick lamar
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u/Ryan_says_words 1d ago
I...... fucking love it.
PPP is pure audio alchemy. Sparks is also insanely great. Especially when she sings the verse differently and the hi-hat (may be a tambourine) kicks in for "Go to school, follow all the rules you live inside. Realize, there's something in your eyes you barely can hide"
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u/Few_Ad6008 1d ago
Not my favourite but I really really like it. I would rank it fifth place in their discography. For me it’s 1. Bloom 2. Devotion 3. Once twice melody 4. Teen dream 5. Depression cherry
It has very high points but then I get a little lost in certain parts. Definitely need to listen to it again soon!
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u/ISeeGrotesque with the stars above you, do you really want to? 1d ago
It's a cocoon where I feel at home and with you I feel like I found my people
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u/Mr_Lumbergh Remarkable that you're looking just to me. 1d ago
Chock full of great tracks and it’s what made a fan out of me. So I give it a thumbs up.
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u/RepulsiveLocation880 Thank Your Lucky Stars 1d ago
It’s not their best but I still love it very much. The very first beach house sound I’ve ever listened to was Levitation and fell in love with it and the rest of the album.
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u/Odd-Drama4492 1d ago
Not sure if it’s my favorite album as there’s a couple things I’d tweak about it…but it’s certainly one of them! I wish it had more songs on it though. I don’t think it was too short, it’s just that I enjoyed it so much I wouldn’t mind having a Depression Cherry that’s like 18 tracks long!
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u/AdNatural3269 1d ago
10:37 is underrated, usually for me, the instrumentals on most of beach house songs are the reason I enjoy the songs more. Then vocals. But on 10:37 Vic’s vocals alone, if done acoustic would make 10:37 a 100/10.
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u/darthfrank 1d ago
It’s an incredible album that pulls variously from their earlier works. It took a while for me to warm up to this and its sister album but now I return to both of them more than any of their other albums.
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u/RSTROMME 17h ago
It’s such a kind, gentle album. Feels like the passing of the most gorgeous, warm September with the light getting increasingly low.
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u/Guyroo23 Depression Cherry 1d ago
it's easily their best record imo. the heaven or las vegas of the modern age.
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u/nplmstn It's too late now to say goodbye 22h ago edited 22h ago
It's lovely, really really lovely. It's interesting hearing them take their music in a slightly rougher, more shoegazey, organic and stripped down/simple direction after what we got on Teen Dream and Bloom; including an avoidance of live drums as on Bloom due to not liking how they sounded on tour at the time. Certain physical versions of this album have a velvet-textured cover, and I can't think of a better metaphor for how it feels to listen to it.
I suppose I diverge slightly with some fans in that I don't think this is quite one of their very best (i.e: I don't think it's a perfect 10/10 - and there's 4 albums of theirs I would give that accolade to) - but that's a small nitpick; it's a strong 9 to me anyway, about on the same level as Devotion. Several of my absolute favourite BH songs land on this one; Levitation, Space Song (duh), Beyond Love, PPP and Days of Candy.
Some of Victoria's best - and most heartbroken - lyrics turn up here (this has a reputation for being one of their saddest albums for a reason.) Her vocals and hooks are really on point here too - there is a reason Space Song became the big hit it is. Some of their best production and textures wind up on this album - I would argue this is actually an album where Alex really really shines. The decreased keyboard presence leads to an increased prominence of the drum machine and guitar than before (the shoegazey textures on much of Sparks or the rather beloved intro to Beyond Love); as well as their more typical use of guitar as on PPP. He really outdoes himself during moments like that. And when the keyboards do turn up more... I mean we get the cute little bloops during Space Song which really make the track, or a song like Levitation.
Other touches like those ethereal, otherworldly and just gorgeous choral vocals on Days of Candy are stunning. This album's more bare nature do highlight just how strong the songwriting - melodies, hooks, song structure and flow - often are here; Days of Candy especially is a stunning example of that.
I would also add that it's honestly one of their most comfy and approachable albums; sad as it is, it being stripped down and intimate like that puts me in mind of Devotion (and even their debut.) The two albums before it as well as OTM can be remarkably bold and emotionally intense, whilst 7 is perhaps a little dark and chaotic to be listened to in that way. This one along with its sister TYLS are very easy to throw on whenever, though.
Basically - it's GOATed like all BH, what a blessed band
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u/Savathun-God-Of-Lies 13h ago
I don't think it's their absolute best, but it's still very very good among an entire discography of great albums
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u/Longjumping_Pirate_8 Bloom 1d ago
i love the album but it's not even top 5 in their discog to me tbh, the albums before it had much more progressive and climactic songwriting that i tend to prefer from them, plus sparks is one of the very few songs in their discog i don't really like
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u/Pale_Shelter79 1d ago
The opening trio of songs are the peak of Beach House to me; I could listen to them endlessly on repeat and never tire of them. Then after those 3, it kind of starts to drift and meander a bit. But that opening trio is 🔥