Beach House Share Robert Lester Folsom Cover From New Music And Dreams: 50th Anniversary Edition
Beach House covering a deep cut from a 1976 private press album that only got its due fifty years later is exactly the kind of archival rabbit hole that makes indie music fascinating. Robert Lester Folsom's slow-burn cult status reminds us that great songwriting doesn't always arrive when the world's ready to listen, but sometimes our favourite artists know how to dig in the dust and find the gems. If Beach House are drawn to it, there's probably something genuinely haunting lurking in there worth your time discovering.
From Stereogum: The Georgia singer-songwriter Robert Lester Folsom released his private press album Music And Dreams into obscurity in 1976, but it eventually developed a cult following, especially once the Mexican Summer imprint Anthology Recordings reissued it in 2010, back when excavating unheard pop oddities was becoming all the rage within the indie sphere. Now Anthology is releasing a 50th anniversary editi…
