“Beach House have always been an out-of-time band, but "Elegy to the Void" places them in a great tradition. People have been making art about The Void forever, from French painter Yves Klein's spectacular 1958 gallery of nothing to the Voidoids' "Blank Generation". The Void and all that it implies—gaping emotional black holes, oblivion, death—might be the simplest and most intense philosophical id”