Once Twice Melody is the 8th studio album by Beach House. It is a doublealbum, featuring 18 songs presented in 4 chapters. Across these songs,many types of style and song structures can be heard. Songs without drums,songs centered around acoustic guitar, mostly electronic songs with noguitar, wandering and repetitive melodies, songs built around the stringsections. In addition to new sounds, many of the drum machines, organs,keyboards and tones that listeners may associate with previous Beach
House records remain present throughout many of the compositions.

Beach House is Victoria Legrand, lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, andAlex Scally, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. They write all of their songstogether. Once Twice Melody is the first album produced entirely by theband. The live drums are by James Barone (same as their 2018 album, 7),and were recorded at Pachyderm studio in Minnesota and United Studio inLos Angeles. For the first time, a live string ensemble was used. Strings werearranged by David Campbell.

The writing and recording of Once Twice Melody began in 2018 and wascompleted in July of 2021. Most of the songs were created during this time,though a few date back over the previous 10 years. Most of the recording wasdone at Apple Orchard Studio in Baltimore. Once Twice Melody was mixedlargely by Alan Moulder but a few tracks were also mixed by CaesarEdmunds, Trevor Spencer, and Dave Fridmann.

Tracklist:

1. Once Twice Melody
2. Superstar
3. Pink Funeral
4. Through Me
5. Runaway
6. Esp
7. New Romance
8. Over and Over
9. Sunset
10. Only You Know
11. Another Go Around
12. Masquerade
13. Illusion of Forever
14. Finale
15. The Bells
16. Hurts to Love
17. Many Nights
18. Modern Love Stories

UPC: 098787147025
Label: Sub Pop
Release Date: 2.18.22
Format: CD