There's two kinds of beach music: the warm Tropicana pop that's built for psyching up the volleyball team, and the introspective dream-pop that's designed for the paler, sadder, chillier ranks of the bikini-clad. Along with Beach House and Grizzly Bear (who recorded their last record at a beach house), this Olympia, Washington trio makes the latter kind of music — all soft waves of reverb, guitar riffs that bleed like watercolors and muffled vocals that echo like they're being projected across the dunes. On their second album, frontman Nicolaas Vart even sings about the ocean (check out “Venice Beach”), but his real soft spot is for the liminal spaces the ocean represents: somewhere between land and water (“Boardwalk Theme”), between day and night (“San Francisco 3AM”), between asleep and awake (“Moon Dreams”). And listening in feels hypnotic: as his voice washes over you in a liquid Ambien haze, extending each syllable sooo looong and sooo sweeeetly, you can feel your head get heavier. Sure, Desolation Wilderness can do upbeat — check the great hula-hooping shimmy of “No Tomorrow” — but they're best in the slow-twinkling glory of ballads that slink along to a classic rhythm: swell and fall, swell and fall, and repeat — just like the tide.

Still not sure what you're wanting to do Stu. Just review some albums posted here?

If so, I can send you a link to the album I recommended Patrick. Review away........if you haven't heard it.

Maybe my original post was misleading. I was throwing my name in to be paired up with another Ob. I thought the rule was: post that you want to be involved then someone is paired up with you to recommend an album, then each Ob reviews that recommended album?