Beach House - Norway Review

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Beach House

Release Date: 18th Jan, 2010
Label: Bella Union
Genre: Alternative Rock

I’ve always been a fan of the output of this great record label, and Beach House are another in a long line of quality signings they have made.

This dreamy track (sure enough, termed ‘dream pop’), with its breathy intro courtesy of vocalist Victoria Legrand, lilting backing and with sparks of Fleetwood Mac and more contemporary bands such as MGMT, it’s a great track for lifting the gloom of a dreary winter. If you didn’t pick this up when iTunes listed it as their free ‘Single of the Week’ download late last year, you’d do worse than to grab it now.

Reviewed by Steve Muscutt

About The Artist

Beach House

Beach House is a dream pop group that formed in 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The group consists of Victoria Legrand (vocals, organ) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards). Legrand is the niece of french composer Michel Legrand. The group has released three albums: 2006's "Beach House", 2008's "Devotion" and "Teen Dream" in early 2010. The group's latest album, Bloom, is scheduled to be released May 15, 2012 by Sub Pop Records. Within a year of formation, the group charmed indie music enthusiasts across the blogosphere with their languid songcraft, while the eerie warmth of "Apple Orchard" landed on Pitchfork's Infinite Mixtape MP3 series in August 2006. Two months later, Beach House issued their eponymous debut album for Carpark. Fall shows with labelmates Over the Atlantic were also scheduled. Victoria can also be heard on Frenemies' Birds in High School album. She and Chris Freeland created harmonies on the song Waiting for the Ambulance. Victoria can also be heard on Grizzly Bear's 2009 release "Veckatimest" and she sings on "Slow Life", a Grizzly Bear track featured on the official soundtrack for Twilight: New Moon. In September of 2009 Sub Pop Records announced that Beach House had signed and that a follow up album to 2008's "Devotion", "Teen Dream" would be released in early 2010. Beach House was featured as a cover story in a January 2010 issue of the Washington Post magazine.

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