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Beach House’s “Teen Dream” is the musical version of a narcotic, carrying away the listener into a heavenly realm of lush pop melodies and intimate organ beats. Coming into their own on their third album, the Baltimore dream pop duo—consisting of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally—maintain their past convention of chill intimacy, while adding new layers that knit together to produce a more polished sound, setting the album apart from their previous work...
...rings out on exaggerated vowels, the music follows suit, sweeping the listener along in a daze. “Used to Be,” a rerecorded version of the track that first appeared on a 2008 single release, exemplifies this fuller sound unique to “Teen Dream.” An upbeat piano ballad of sorts, its poetic unanswered questions address the pangs of growing apart. On this and other tracks, the emotional core of the song is consistently detectable on the surface. Beach House’s music has matured and it shows...
Suddenly, Nick’s wry observations are funny. Often relegated to high school English reading lists, “Gatsby” has always been popular—but not necessarily understood. What is inevitably lost in the commotion of the American dream, unrequited love, and two tragic deaths is Fitzgerald’s humor. Shepherd manages to draw out the wit and sarcasm of the narrator, capitalizing on dramatic pauses and pointed glances at the audience. As he reads Fitzgerald’s exposition aloud, his earnest and deadpan drawl meshes well with the reflective musings of Midwesterner...
...stark foreshadowing of what lies beneath the lavish glamour of these characters. Stripped of their displays of wealth, the three characters are as cold and unfeeling as the world ERS has created around them. As the set reminds us, even Gatsby has clung so desperately to a passionate dream that will never exist, that the American dream he actually has achieved cannot disguise the empty futility of his romantic ambition...
Possibly the most significant light appears at the end of the first chapter, when Gatsby reaches for the distant green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. The novel’s enduring symbol of the American dream, the green light is paid homage in a lovely moment in which a backlit Gatsby leaves the office, and a small, single green light is visible on the wall. Though it manages to evoke the sorrow and impossibility of Gatsby’s life, doomed to mortality by his idealistic dream, the moment is far from dispiriting?...