Beach House
Beach House is an American musical duo founded in 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland. Victoria Legrand is the band's vocalist and keyboardist, and Alex Scally is the guitarist, keyboardist, and backup vocalist. Their self-titled debut album was released to critical acclaim in 2006. Although Beach House is best known as a dream-pop band, their musical style has evolved over the course of their career. Previous work on Beach House, Devotion, and Teen Dream has been described as indie pop and lo-fi.
At the Carpark festival, the duo released their self-titled debut album, which featured the contrasts of Nico and Mazzy Star. Beach House recorded their second album in two months at Lord Baltimore Studio in early 2007. The album, which was released in early 2010, continued to refine and improve its music and reached the Billboard 200 Top 50. Beach House builds on the success of Teen Dream and Bloom in 2012, with a collection of unified sounds and images intended to be experienced as a synchronized album rather than a monotonous collection of songs. The duo's fourth album, again collaborating with Coady, was their highest-grossing album to date, receiving widespread acclaim and debuting at number seven on the Billboard 200. In 2013, Beach House released Forever Still, a short concert film filmed around Tornillo, Texas, where the duo recorded Bloom. The hidden Depression Cherry album appeared in August 2015. The 2017 B-Sides and Rarity Collection brings together 14 songs including Chariot and Baseball Diamond that have never been released before, as well as a cover of Queen's Play the Game, which debuted on the Dark. For the seventh album, Beach House took a different approach. Their achievement was named "7" in 2018, which includes several electronic tracks featuring collaborations by duo Heather Phares and Rovi. There are 4 albums on Pitchfork Media's list of 50 best albums of the year. They won the GAFFA Award for Best Foreign Album in 2019.
Origin: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Genres: Dream pop, indie pop, neo-psychedelia, shoegaze
Year of the start of operation: 2004
