Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	B+
Consequence of Sound	B+
Exclaim!	6/10
Pitchfork	8.1/10
PopMatters	9/10
Rolling Stone
Spin	8/10

Thank Your Lucky Stars is the sixth studio album by American dream pop band Beach House. It was co-produced by the band and Chris Coady, and was released on October 16, 2015, on Sub Pop and Bella Union. The album was released less than two months after their fifth studio album, Depression Cherry.

Described by the band as "not a companion to Depression Cherry, or a surprise, or b-sides," Thank Your Lucky Stars was unexpectedly announced nine days before its release via the band's Twitter account. It received mostly positive reviews from critics.

The album was recorded at Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and mixed at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas. Although the album was recorded simultaneously alongside Depression Cherry, the band felt that the records should be seen as distinct unconnected works. Despite this, the words "Thank Your Lucky Stars" were etched in the runout of the vinyl pressings of Depression Cherry. The cover art is a photograph of Victoria Legrand's mother taken in the late 1950s.

Thank Your Lucky Stars was released to highly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 80, based on 18 reviews.

Jayson Greene of Pitchfork suggested the songs took on a "darker edge" than those from Depression Cherry, judging the songs to feel smaller by having stripped away the typical cathedral-like reverb from the group's previous albums. Greene likened the mood of the songs to Beach House's material before they joined Sub Pop, describing the feeling as "pneumatic, dusty, like they are pulling a blanket around themselves in a heatless attic to ward off a threatening chill." Although the "joy and comfort have vanished" from the material, Greene claimed that that album is "still undeniably a Beach House album, a familiar mix of warm tones and chilly sentiments." Ultimately, Greene welcomed the addition to the band's repertoire, but suggested that a new album so soon created a dissonance that feels like "too much of a good thing."

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