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Once Twice Melody is the eighth studio album by the American dream pop duo Beach House, released on February 18, 2022.[5] It is a double album of 18 songs, presented in four chapters.[1][6][7]

Once Twice Melody
Studio album by Beach House
Released	February 18, 2022 (2022-02-18)
Recorded	2018 – July 2021
Studio	Apple Orchard (Baltimore, Maryland) Pachyderm Studio (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) United Studio (Los Angeles)[1] Village Recorders (Los Angeles)
Genre	Dream pop neo-psychedelia[2] chamber pop[3]
Length	84:28
Label	Sub Pop
Producer	Beach House
Beach House chronology
7 (2018) Once Twice Melody (2022)
Singles from Once Twice Melody
"Once Twice Melody" Released: November 10, 2021[4] "Hurts to Love" Released: February 14, 2022

Release

The first chapter was released on November 10, 2021,[8] the second on December 8, 2021,[9] and the third on January 19, 2022.[10] "Hurts to Love" was released as a standalone single on February 14, 2022, to coincide with Valentine's Day.[11] Once Twice Melody was released in full, by Sub Pop, on February 18, 2022.[12]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.8/10[13]
Metacritic	84/100[14]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[15]
The A.V. Club	B+[16]
The Daily Telegraph	[17]
Exclaim!	7/10[18]
Mojo	[19]
NME	[3]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[20]
Uncut	8/10[21]

Once Twice Melody was released to universal acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[14] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[13]

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Heather Phares claimed that, "Though Once Twice Melody is unapologetically lush even by Beach House's standards, the duo uses space creatively to express the beauty in sadness."[15] Stevie Chick of Mojo called it the band's "grandest vision yet", praising the "impassive beauty" of Legrand's vocals and comparing them to "'O Superman'-era Laurie Anderson serenades, or as if someone programmed AI to sing like Judee Sill."[19] Jason Anderson of Uncut commended the "stunning" cinematic quality of the first chapter and praised the album's "unexpected elements" for deftly counterbalancing the "grandeur and glamour from becoming sickly sweet." Uncut concluded that the album's "greatness lies not in its hugeness - it's in the duo's ability to create music that possesses the same intimacy regardless of its scope."[21]

Track listing

Personnel

• Beach House – arrangement, performance; production, engineering; art direction
  • Victoria Legrand
  • Alex Scally
• James Barone – live drums (writing, performance)
• Michael Scally – guitar solo (3)
• Wheatie Mattiasich – additional vocals (9)
• Rebecca Morrin – additional vocals (9)
• David Campbell – live strings arrangement
• Nick Tveitbakk – live drums engineering (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12–14, 18)
• Trevor Spencer – live drums engineering (2–4, 6–9, 11), mixing (5, 11)
• Gabe Burch – live strings engineering
• Travis Warner – live strings engineering
• Johnny Morgan – assistant live drums engineering (2–4, 6–9, 11)
• Alan Moulder – mixing (1–4, 6–8, 10, 12, 16, 18)
• Caesar Edmunds – mixing (9, 13, 15, 17)
• Dave Fridmann – mixing (14)
• Mike Fridmann – assistant mixing (14)
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Steve Fallone – mastering
• Jeff Kleinsmith – art direction, design
• Nicholas Law – inside heart art

Charts

Chart performance for Once Twice Melody

Chart (2022)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[22]	68
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[23]	53
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[24]	18
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[25]	111
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[26]	64
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[27]	14
Irish Albums (IRMA)[28]	78
Scottish Albums (OCC)[29]	9
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[30]	57
Swedish Vinyl Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[31]	8
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[32]	22
UK Albums (OCC)[33]	65
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[34]	4
US Billboard 200[35]	12
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[36]	2
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[37]	1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[38]	1

References

На других языках

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- [en] Once Twice Melody

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[es] Once Twice Melody

Once Twice Melody es el octavo álbum de estudio por el dúo estadounidense Beach House, publicado el 18 de febrero de 2022.[3] Es un álbum doble de 18 canciones, el cual es presentado en cuatro capítulos.[4][5][6]

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