To best understand the impact and influence of Beach House in the 2010s, do not read the rave reviews or scour the year-end and decade lists. Yes, Bloom and Depression Cherry debuted in the Billboard ...

They are the internet’s favorite band, I think, because their music can function both as an anonymous haze and as startlingly specific when it needs to be. Most times, the “you” in the singer Victoria ...

For a band 14 years and seven albums into their career, the Beach House experience can only be described as phenomenally untroubled. The personal turbulence and aesthetic sputters that come to plague ...

An hour into our conversation, Victoria Legrand names the feeling. “We’re kids pretending to be grown ups.” Alex Scally, Beach House’s other half, is cruising along two beers in, shoes off and cozied ...

The whole point of Beach House is transportation. Dream-pop is the vehicle Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally use to pull listeners from their current reality and into the next space. Since debuting in ...

Do those qualify as jazz hands? After playing together in another Baltimore band, Victoria Legrand (a graduate of Vassar) and Alex Scally (a graduate of Oberlin) spun off and out on their own to form ...

Beach House have spent the last decade-plus making music that hums with feverish intensity even at its most quiet. The Baltimore duo’s albums inspire cult-like devotion from fans, which makes sense: ...

BEACH HOUSE 7 (Sub Pop) The Baltimore duo Beach House has plumbed a singular aesthetic so deeply that each of their albums sounds fairly similar — they never stray too far from ethereal, dreamy pop ...

For someone who makes such minimalist and ethereal music, Beach House singer-keyboardist Victoria Legrand sure can be voluminous. Legrand and Alex Scally craft dreamy, slow-moving songs with emotional ...

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