BEACH HOUSE - TEEN DREAM

The stunning cover art (another in a series of aesthetic slam-dunks for Sub Pop) provides a neat parallel to the music itself. The zebra pattern, ostensibly a reference to the album’s opening track, is rendered in a pink pastel tone, so desaturated as to barely be percepted, against the white background. In most cases, a zebra pattern is the pinnacle of “loudness”—a visual so striking that it’s been relegated to the tackiest outskirts of art and fashion. 

Inside Cover

Lyric Booklet

Norway, our featured video, can be found on the DVD accompanying the third album from the Baltimore-based duo which also happens to be their Sub Pop debut. Teen Dream’s companion DVD features a video for each song on the album, each by a different director.