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I've always “liked” Current Joys. But that's mostly because some of their albums match well with Duster fans and I love duster. I also like Surf Curse and I can just tell by the sheer amount of music Nick has made and the way he acts that he's a genius with music — just maybe not *always* with the type of music I would listen to almost daily. And that's okay, yknow everyone has their music tastes. But I listened to CJ's single the other day and, well, it's hard to not notice how different it was. I actually liked It quite a bit. Fast forward a few days later and I see the controversy within the community, as expected, even as (mostly) an outsider looking in. But I'm making this post because I just listened to CJ's new music they played in a show recently. And I've gotta say, it was actually amazing. Like what the heck??? I was blown away. This album may transform me to an avid CJ fan lol. So what's up with actual “avid” CJ fans not liking it?? Sure, HOLE, was weird (take weird how you would like it), but the other stuff they've made is awesome so far. So I want to know the why. Why do a number of fans not like the new music? Do you guys know something I don't?

So this is kind of a random thought that popped in my head, but each BH album has a distinctive tone to it, so I wonder what animal is thought of when listening to each album - what do you think?

(Written by me, no AI).

This world holds people who fight silent battles, lost in the darkness life offers. Sometimes it takes devotion and an alliance of understanding between a pair to lift the hands of the other side of the coin. Beach House, a band of just two people in Baltimore, broke top 200 hits in Billboard’s 200 with their second studio album Devotion released in 2008. On it, the song Heart of Chambers rattled the turntable. That previously mentioned duo is now going to be your favorite in music history Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. After Victoria handed Alex a CD mixtape, the two started writing music together in 2004 and gained success in their innovative and otherworldly sound. 

The song Heart of Chambers tells a story through Beach House’s traditionally poetic and ambiguous lyrical style. Through its lyrics and emotionally driven instruments, it paints a picture in the mind of a claustrophobic room of 4 walls and pressing ceilings. The song’s lyrics can be interpreted in many ways, but to me, it speaks of a person deep in the folds of a dark room reminiscing on better times, sabotaging themself in the process and growing farther from their lover, perhaps not in the longing of old times, but the inadvertent feeling of melancholy. The speaker is from the perspective of this lover who observes this mysterious person’s increasing dissociation. For the sake of understanding, I will call the mysterious person a he and the lover a she. The lover finds in a note, or rather hushed whispers, of the former person’s “sold and tired” soul. The speaker asks their person if he is still fit to carry her and continue to love her. The two only spend time together through the bond of music “strok[ing their] organs”, conjuring spirits, the only thing that seems to have the man smile anymore. 

So far, Heart of Chambers seems nothing but depressing, but the song reaches a resolution in its bridge section. Cutting off the speaker from once again asking if the man can love her again, instead shifting to a cooperative solution, putting their “woes down” and “mending [their] smiles”. The lover shifts her tone, and the two live in the comfort of their bed with the sun providing them life. Imagery of the sun contrasts the initial dark, seclusive sensation with a fresh bright, new sentiment. I especially love how the speaker notes how they are the lucky ones. To me, this suggests the presenter of the story notices how relationships in degrading shape rarely find resolution and peace while maintaining together.

Tonely, Heart of Chambers features an organ that wouldn’t be out of place in a dusty, warm church built some time between your conception and your great-grandmother’s father’s, transferring its soundwaves through time to be pressed on the record. Alex’s auditorily apparent heavily worn guitar shifts from a gritty-toned recurring riff which serves to glue the melody together to a hauntingly beautiful string machine, high in the octaves by the end of the song.

Victoria Legrand shared in an interview how Heart of Chambers carries a certain weight for her, one that is reminiscent of a “heavy train rolling along". In evaluation, Heart of Chambers offers an instrumental and lyrical bittersweet beauty which is guaranteed to mesmerize your mind, transferring you to another, solemn dimension.  I would like to add to Victoria’s remarks that the song impresses an everlasting cycle. A cycle that starts when one side of a pair starts to grow disheartened, lost in the darkness of this world, while the other person offers a solution to heal together, finding themselves solace and inter-devotion.

I love this song so much <3