Beach House
Beach House

A Norman Records recommendation (10th August 2007)

This record left our Mingus feeling ecstatic.

Beach House: "S/T" (Bella Union) Debut album from this duo who hail from Baltimore, USA. This immediately makes me thing of long hot summers, sitting on a porch, an allotment or some flowery garden elsewhere far from maddening crowd. My ideal beach house would probably be either be in Bahia, Brasil or St Anns, Jamaica, i'd while away my hours idly reading, smoking varied quantities of marijuana, drinking beer with one eye out for the loveliest ladies of the locale. Oh yeah the music...by turns melancholic and wistful, gently strummed strings,slide guitar, pianos and warm percussion propels this collection that reminds us of Hope Sandoval, warm balmy evenings at dusk... A lovely thing.

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What their label says...

Beach House, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, have been playing music forever, each since childhood in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and France. Beach House formed in the summer, it was very late at night and there was a lot of heat. Their songs start simple and grow organically like tiny skeletons that multiply layers of necessary flesh. In the Beach House world, outside influences have been purely atmospheric.  There are many groups and artists that have entranced the duo: Zombies, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Big Star, Chris Bell, the list goes on; however, there isn't one particular group or artist that Beach House admires more than another. By not forcing the way their songs come to fruition and by allowing all of their ideas to exist and play freely, an otherworldy space is created: organs, slide guitars, reverb, harmony, layers, accidents, echoes and melodies stand by themselves like the ones in everyone's childhood memories.

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