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Beach House

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Beach House: Devotion

Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 24 February 2008

DREAM POP doesn't come much dreamier than this. For their second outing, the Baltimore-based duo of Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand have concocted an even ...

New Band Of The Week — Beach House

Profile by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 7 December 2009

It is only a matter of time before these US alt-rockers will be acclaimed for their slow, atmospheric lo-fi lullabies. ...

Beach House: Shore thing for easy listening

Profile and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 15 January 2010

Baltimore's dream-pop duo Beach House are confounding classification to gain plaudits from Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and the Strokes. Tim Cooper gets to grips with ...

Beach House: Village Underground, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 27 May 2012

THE EARLY 1990S SHOEGAZE SCENE is not widely regarded as British music's finest moment. Peopled by bands such as Lush and Slowdive — who crafted ...

Beach House: Bloom

Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, June 2012

The Baltimore duo stitch a blue velvet tapestry. WHEN BEACH HOUSE released their self-titled debut album in 2006, it was readily embraced by the Pitchfork-reading ...

Beach House: Bloom/Niki & The Dove: Instinct

Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, June 2012

ONE OF THE most underrated qualities in music is doing one thing very well. We instinctively cherish the wayward souls, the confounders of expectation, the ...

Beach House: Depression Cherry

Review by John Calvert, New Musical Express, 19 August 2015

"MAKING THE SIMPLE COMPLICATED is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Not our words but those of jazz colossus Charles Mingus, which ...

Beach House: Ritz, Manchester

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 28 October 2015

"THIS ONE'S GOING to be in near darkness," mutters the man on the door, and Beach House emerge in so much gloom that if one ...

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