Beach House

B-more dream poppers are set to release a new EP on Record Store Day, April 14th. Their latest album Teen Dream just came out last month, and it was an interesting shift– the songs being more crisply than their past two albums. It seems to have worked for them because the album gained much more [...]

So finally, here is my list of “must-hear” albums from this year. I’m a little late to the scene but hopefully you guys aren’t exhausted of these yet. I’ll keep it easy on the reading part. I wasn’t sure what to call this list, but I think that “best of” and “favorite” are overused since [...]

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“Norway” is the second song released from the band’s upcoming album, following the “Used To Be” 7″ which came out back in October.

‘Teen Dream’ is out Jan. 26 although it leaked online a couple weeks ago.

Slow jams don’t get much slower than Beach House. The Baltimore pop duo have their third album coming out on Sub Pop this January after their 2006 and 2008 albums on Carpark. The writing and recording took place “in a secluded practice space and…a converted church in upstate New York with producer Chris Coady (Yeah [...]

Synthesizer Shaikh: A one-man band that sounds kinda like Yeasayer on “The Rise”. He tags it “some mix between electronic, psychedelic, and post-rock.” He started making music in college on his computer with Ableton Live, and spent two years making/mastering his first full-length album, SamIAm. And he’s not charging a penny for it. Get it [...]

None of these picks are mind-blowing if you’ve been keeping up with their record reviews over the past year, so as far as consistency goes, and as a whole, they do a decent job. But a handful of picks seem kinda crazy to me: New Age at #3 (it’s good but not that good), Cut [...]

We’ve shown you quite a few Beach House clips including a Black Cab session, but I think this one suits the band a bit better. Accompanied by Celebration’s Dave Bergander on tambourine, Alex and Victoria play the newly familiar “Used To Be” at Sydney’s “Glamourama Beach”. The Used To Be 7″ single is out now [...]

More uptempo than their entire Devotion LP, “Used To Be” undoubtedly still retains Beach House’s mellow lo-fi sound. Not like we expected too much of a change; the formula has worked fine on their last two albums. The 7″ inch is out October 21, and features “Used To Be” on the A-side, and a four [...]

As we promised, here’s the last part of Beach House’s 3-song set, live in the small confines of Juan’s Basement. This time, it’s “Apple Orchard”, another song from their 2007 LP Devotion. Accompanying the track is, you guessed it, another interview.  This time the band talks about their day jobs, something that is obviously quite [...]