8. Beach HouseTeen Dream
There’s a pub in South London, The Rose on Weston Street, that my mate Paul used to run. A lot of art students would go in there and bring things for the jukebox. The cool thing about The Rose was that it used to be open pretty much all day and all night. I had so many birthdays and New Year’s Eves there, and it was a great venue to discover things. Brian Burton – Danger Mouse – used to work in that pub, so not only did Paul play up to date and obscure things, he’d also play the demos that Brian had left. He’d left the pub by this time and become Danger Mouse, but they kept in touch and he would send ideas for things to be played in the pub. There was always something new on. It was a really good source for new music and obscure music, stuff you know that you would have to concentrate to find. Someone had put ‘Lover Of Mine’ on a compilation CD that they played, and it really stuck out. The beauty of this album is that they’ve concentrated their efforts on a budget Yamaha, sort of a kids keyboard, but great songs are great songs. You could play them on an Omnichord, it wouldn’t make any differences. The melodies are catchy as fuck, and it really pushes the great songs to the front. And I love the use of the guitar as well, it’s really satisfying.
