Depression Cherry
A return to stripped-back dream pop. Built on simple drum machines, warm organ chords, and breathy vocals, it feels like a slow-motion drift through velvet shadows.
A return to stripped-back dream pop. Built on simple drum machines, warm organ chords, and breathy vocals, it feels like a slow-motion drift through velvet shadows.
Minimalist retreat
A low hum of a cheap organ fills the room, accompanied by the steady, mechanical tap of a vintage drum machine. After years of growing louder and grander, this music retreats into the quiet corners of a bedroom. You are wrapped in heavy red velvet, drifting through slow-motion melodies that feel both warm and ghostly. It is a soft, deliberate exhale, trading stadium-sized echoes for the intimate whisper of a singer standing just inches from your ear.
The writing leans a touch further into love lost than the rest of the catalogue.
While some reviewers noted that the dream-pop duo offers a highly familiar formula, most warmly embraced the album's stripped-back simplicity and vivid, evocative songwriting. Critics generally agreed that these slow-burning, melancholic tracks linger deeply, rewarding attentive listeners with an absorbing atmosphere that never slides into sheer gloom.
“If Depression Cherry sounds as though they are stuck in a groove, well, they are. But it is a groove worth wallowing in”Read review
“The result is a dream that’s hard to remember once you’re outside of it”Read review
“Forebears like Cocteau Twins and Slowdive remain the easiest comparisons of emotional blank slates, but neither landmark band was ever all-consuming as the placidity of Depression Cherry”Read review
“The record falls into a creeping, achromatic daze far more ambitious than it is visionary”Read review
“Throughout the album, Legrand’s lyrics conjure vivid experience”Read review
“From their muted first two records, into their Sub Pop debut Teen Dream and then Bloom, Beach House always seem to be just leaving the ground as we catch them”Read review
“Depression Cherry’s flabby midsection finds Beach House similarly situated: treading repeatedly over the same ground, yielding diminishing returns”Read review
“This is one fairytale losing its magic in the retelling”Read review
“This is a Beach House record that sounds, above all else, like a Beach House record”Read review
“Stands out due to its simplicity”Read review
“The band shows growth, though not all of it positive, while expanding on their signature sound”Read review
“It’s a grower that demands and rewards close listening”Read review
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