Definitely one of the more anticipated artist’s coming to this years Falls are the critically acclaimed group Beach House.
Hailing from Baltimore USA, Beach House released their first album (self titled) in 2006. Since then they have released three more albums bi-annually, 2008 – Devotion, 2010 – Teen Dream and their latest offering, 2012′s highly praised Bloom.
Clearly a band that don’t sit around, This bands influence has grown world wide with every new release. So much so that earlier in the year The Wall St. Journal reported that lead singer Victoria Legrand had turned down several offers to use the song “take care” in a car commercial for Volkswagen. Fellow member Alex Scally said the offer had been turned down because the commercial direction didn’t suit the songs original intention “When someone takes Beach House’s vibe and puts it into a commercial, it tarnishes what they’ve done on their own,” so along with creating ground breaking music, the act are also prepared to defend their work. Volkswagen have since been called out by fans for creating a “soundalike” version of the song. The band have been considering possible legal action against the company.
Having performed around 100 live shows this year alone, Beach House are just as well known for their performances as their initial releases. often kept simple and minimal to maintain attention on the performance, with minimal crowd talk back. All effort is thrown into the music with basic lighting effects to set the songs mood. Beach House pride themselves on their constantly evolving show’s and set’s designed and built by Scally himself. This pride is set to pay off for anyone seeing a live set from this group any time soon.
Like most art, Beach Houses’ work is crafted in a completely different space, well detached from the listener. Their music instantly draws you in from the first listen. Its very hard to describe the groups sound in words, often done with cliche’ terms such as “moody, dreamy, melodic, blurry, blue, grey, distant” etc. when the group considers themselves as just “LOUD” the best way to get Beach House through your head is to simply relax and listen on a lazy sunday afternoon.
Playing at 8pm on sunday the 31st, Beach House will be an island of serenity in a sea of tension and end of year pandemonium. Blissfully strumming out sweet hits over screaming fans as the sun slowly fades out to end the year that was 2012.

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Martie.