Depression Cherry

A return to drum machines and a red-velvet sleeve after the big Bloom tour, and the home of their biggest song.
Beach House, 2015

Released
28 August 2015
Recorded
November 2014 to January 2015
Studio
Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, Louisiana
Label
Sub Pop
Producer
Beach House and Chris Coady
Length
44:45

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Legrand said she did not feel creative at all for five or six months after the Bloom tour. The songs were written in Baltimore between 2012 and 2014 and recorded in a Louisiana studio with Coady, the band dropping much of the live drumming in favor of old drum machines, which they called going back to their roots; the vocal loop on Sparks was caught by accident at a soundcheck in Bristol. A college choir sings on Days of Candy. The sleeve is lined in red velvet.

It went to number eight in America and topped the independent and rock charts. Pitchfork said they had never sounded so full and soaring; NME found it increasingly uninteresting. Thanks largely to Space Song, it was certified platinum in 2026.

Track listing

  1. Levitation5:54
  2. Sparks5:20
  3. Space Song5:20
  4. Beyond Love4:24
  5. 10:373:48
  6. PPP6:08
  7. Wildflower3:38
  8. Bluebird3:56
  9. Days of Candy6:16

Personnel

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Sources

  1. Depression Cherry, Wikipedia
  2. Beach House on Depression Cherry, WBUR Here and Now (2015-08-06)
  3. Life's a Beach House, Grantland (2015-08-24)