B i o g r a p h y (by Tripnotic)
Beach House are a duo 'not a couple, as they often point out' from Baltimore. Built on the vocals and organ of Victoria Legrand and the atmospheric slide-guitar of Alex Scally, they wear frequent comparisons to Nico and Mazzy Star, and are heavily influenced by Neil Young and the films of David Lynch. Their music is slow, droney, dreamlike, and narcotic. "That's very much what the 'Beach House' feel is: going off to a different world," Scally explained, in 2008. "It's not really a vacation; vacation for me is when you go away, but you're still thinking about all the things you've left behind." Much of the response to their music, Legrand believes, comes from the name. "People immediately think: 'lying in the cabana,'" she told The Village Voice. "Smoking opium. Listening to Galaxie 500. Spiritualized. I know that there's drug references and things like that, but when we write we're definitely not succumbing to the influence of drugs or imagining that at all." Legrand was born into an artistic family, as the daughter of a painter, and the niece of French composer Michel Legrand and singer Christine Legrand. The Beach House vocalist was born in Paris, raised in Philadelphia, and returned to the city of her birth to study acting at the International Theatre School Of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. "I've been performing all my life in theatres, so it's very natural for me to be in front of people, on stage," Legrand recalled, in a 2008 interview with me, of her theatrical background. "Every time we play, I try and use all those performative things that're ingrained in me. I think the minute you're on stage, you're performing." On graduation, Legrand moved to Baltimore, in part because of "cheap rent," but also impelled by "a weird gut feeling," she told The Age. Six months after moving there, in 2004, she met Scally, and the two quickly started "hanging out all the time," eventually leading to a musical collaboration. "Everything about it was easy and was very natural,' Legrand recounted in 2008. "It was just like two friends being around one another and talking about music and loving music and loving organs and loving pianos and loving four-tracks, and this kind of intense baby was born. We were two people who had very similar colors in their minds." Scally was a Baltimore native who had grown up playing bass guitar, studied Geology at University, and eventually found employment as a carpenter. Before Beach House, Scally was never a guitarist. "It's been great because I was never taught on that instrument," he told Owl and Bear, "so I've been able to play exactly how I want and not have preconceived notions about what the guitar's role is." Beach House started out life as a recording project. Yet, rather than using multi-tracking to build 'grand' songs, they stuck to the simplicity of their set-up: organ, programmed drums, slide guitar. "It's a way to challenge ourselves: What do you do when it's just the two of you?" Legrand said, to Pitchfork. Offered Scally: "One of the reasons this has been such a fulfilling experience for me is that with two people, it's so much easier to achieve things that feel exciting and new." After a year as a recording project, Beach House began playing around Baltimore, and recorded their 2006 self-titled debut in the space of two days. Though made without a label, the band were soon signed by Carpark Records. Beach House soon became a 'blog band,' the internet's embrace symbolized by the ever-influential Pitchfork, whoawarded the band their 'best new music' tag and scored Beach House an 8.1. "We know we're an internet band," Scally has offered. "That's how we've always been: real small, but with really devoted fans." In 2008, Beach House released their second album, Devotion, a more dynamic set whose songs were, Scally claimed, "incredibly high in intensity," born of bottled-up emotions from touring and increased creative tensions between the two. The album found more critical love, and the band's fanbase continued to grow, aided by tours with Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear. In 2009, Beach House signed to Sub Pop Records, and the first fruits of that union were 2010's impressive Teen Dream. The album's title, Legrand explained, "described the feeling that [they] had [making it]: youthful and obsessed, completely inspired by everything in this overwhelming, irrational, passionate way." Recorded in a converted church in upstate New York, the album summoned a sense of grandeur beyond the hazy mood music of the band's first two records, and was summarily received with critical rapture; named album of the year by Gorilla vs. Bear and in the Top 10 by Pitchfork, Time, Billboard, Stereogum, and the NME. In 2012, the duo returned with Bloom, an LP that reaffirmed Beach House's status as a important indie band and critical darlings.
( Hidden track ) And she’s rolling down the water But it always rains I will haunt you the rest of your life Were you lazy Were you lazy Always counting Numbers down And she’s rolling down the window But it always rains I will haunt you the rest of your life Spend your money Acting funny Get yourself In the autumn But she’s rolling down the window But it’s always rain But it’s always rain I will haunt you the rest of your life
Teen Dream
Zebra You know you're gold You don't got to worry none Oasis child, born and so wild Don't I know you better than the rest All deception, all deception from you Your love is stag in the white sand Wilderness for miles Eyes so mild and wise Don't I know you better than the rest All deception, all deception from you Anyway you run You run before us Black and white horse Arching among us Anyway you run You run before us Black and white horse Arching among us Your love is stag in the white sand Oasis child, born into a man Don't I know you better than the rest All deception, all deception from you Wilderness for miles Eyes so mild and wise Oasis child, born and so wild Don't I know you better than the rest All deception, all deception from you Anyway you run You run before us Black and white horse Arching among us Anyway you run You run before us Black and white horse Arching among us Anyway you run You run before us Black and white horse Arching among us Anyway you run You run before us Black and white horse Arching among us Silver Soul We gather matters of the heart So we can act a fool It's incomplete without you The silver soul is running through It's a vision Complete illusion, yeah The needle on the spinning wheel Collecting silver coil It gathers heat without you Whether or not you're turned from it It's a quick turn To let us in, yeah It is happening again It is happening again It is happening again Ah, it is happening again The bodies lying in the sand They're moving in the dark It is so quick to let us in Feel it moving through our skin It's a sickness Infinite quickness, yeah It is happening again It is happening again It is happening again Ah, it is happening again It is happening again Ah, it is happening again It is happening again Ah, it is happening again It is happening again Ah, it is happening again It is happening again Norway We were sleeping till you came along With your tiny heart You led us in the wooden house To share in all the wealth Don't you know it's true, oh Norway Norway Seven figures lead the hungry mouths The beast, he comes to you He's a hunter for a lonely heart In the season of the sun Don't you know it's true, oh Norway Norway Where you thinking that you're gonna run to now With the beating of a tiny heart You hang on to the things that you're supposed to say Millions of stars that open to your fate Norway Norway Norway Norway Walk In The Park You go for a walk in the park 'Cause you don't need anything The hand that you sometimes hold Doesn't do anything The face that you see in the door Isn't standing there anymore In a matter of time It will slip from my mind In and out of my life You would slip from my mind In a matter of time The face that you saw in the door Isn't looking at you anymore The name that you call in its place Isn't waiting for your embrace The world that you love to behold Cannot hold you anymore In a matter of time It will slip from my mind In and out of my life You would slip from my mind In a matter of time More You want more More You want more More You want more You tell me Only time can run me More You want more You tell me more Only time can run me More You want more You tell me more Only time can run me More You want more You tell me more Only time can run me More You want more You tell me more Only time can run me More You want more You tell me more Used To Be You are coming home, are you still alone Are you not the same as you used to be As the sun grows high and you serve your time Does each day just feel like another lie Now you know, is it just for show Just a foolish game that you hide behind Don't forget the nights when it all felt right Are you not the same as you used to be Used to be Used to be In an endless night, could you feel the fright Of an age that was and could never be So we hold it close when we feel the most Like a love that we could not leave behind Turn the wheel to each way we feel Till I'm lost and I cannot find you there Don't forget the nights when it all felt right Are you not the same as you used to be Used to be Used to be Coming home Any day now Any day now Any day now Coming home Any day now Any day now Any day now Coming home Any day now Any day now Any day now Lover Of Mine You hear my cry, lover of mine No tear in the eye or fear in my mind The forest is thick and we don't recognize We parted our lips, and we reached from inside In a wide-open field We know we can feel Awake and unreal, oh Off to nowhere Off to nowhere Off to nowhere Need more people to be satisfied No fear of a god and a prayer for the night You come into our minds and you rush through our lives We parted our lips, and reached from inside In a wide-open field We know we can feel Awake and unreal, oh Off to nowhere, hey Off to nowhere The only thing you've got (Off to nowhere) You know you're better off without it The only thing you've got (Off to nowhere) You know you're better off without it The only thing you've got (Off to nowhere) You know you're better off without it The only thing you've got (Off to nowhere) You know you're better off without it Youngest fire You decide You decide What is right Youngest fire Who decides We decide What is right Near yet so far Isn't it Near yet so far (The only thing you've got) Isn't it (You know you're better off without it) Near yet so far (The only thing you've got) Isn't it (You know you're better off without it) Near yet so far (The only thing you've got) Isn't it (You know you're better off without it) Near yet so far (The only thing you've got) Isn't it (You know you're better off without it) Better Times I want you to know the truth 'Cause I've been around before Thought I wasn't looking anymore Been a fool for weeks 'Cause my heart stands for nothing And your soul's too weak Got a will that's been around for days Goes far if you want it It needs to behave But then you You come around Big mistake I don't want to know I don't want to know We don't need a sign to know Better times Running around 'cause you beat yourself up 'Cause you made a crack and the one that you love is gone How much longer can you play with fire Before you turn into a liar, huh? Running around 'cause you beat yourself up 'Cause you made a crack and the one that you love is gone How much longer can you play with fire Before you turn into a liar I've been around before Thought you weren't looking anymore But then we We come and go Goes up in smoke I don't want to know I don't want to know We don't need a sign to know Better times 10 Mile Stereo The heart is a stone, and this is a stone that we throw Put your hand on this stone, it's the stone of a home you know They say we will go far, but they don't know how far we'll go With our legs on the edge and our feet on the horizon They say we can throw far, but they don't know how far we throw With our legs on the edge and our feet on the horizon The heart is a stone, and this is a stone that we throw They say we will go far, but they don't know how far we'll go It can't be gone We're still right here It took so long Can't say we heard it all Limbs parallel We stood so long, we fell Tear a moment from the days That carry us on forever This push and pull is the force of a wave of time In the heat of a night we would cry, you are not mine They said we would go far, but they didn't know how far we'd go 'Cause this heart is a stone, and this is a stone that we throw It can't be gone We're still right here It took so long Can't say we saw it all Limbs parallel We stood so long, we fell Bright pyramids at night That carry us on forever It can't be gone We're still right here It took so long Can't say we felt it all Limbs parallel We stood so long, we fell Love's like a pantheon It carries on forever Real Love I met you somewhere In a hell beneath the stairs There's someone in that room That frightens you when they go boom Boom, boom, boom Boom, boom, boom Boom, boom, boom Boom, boom, boom The colour you say is black Is the one you might lack In the size of your eyes Is there a righteous prize I met you I met you There's something wrong with our hearts When they beat pure, they stand apart In the black room, the light Watch the seabird fall Real love, it finds you somewhere with your back to it I met you I met you We go, you know, we belong By the street, to the dark We go, you know, we belong By the street, to the dark We go, you know, we belong By the street, to the dark We go, you know, we belong By the street, to the dark Take Care Stand beside it We can't hide the way it makes us glow It's no good unless it grows Feel this burning love of mine Deep inside the ever-spinning Tell me, does it feel It's no good unless it's real Hillsides burning, wild-eyed turning Till we're running from it I'd take care of you If you'd ask me to In a year or two Oh You say swimming in the lake We'll come across a snake It is real and then it's fake Feel its heartbeat Feel what you heat Far so fast it feels too late I'd take care of you If you'd ask me to In a year or two Oh I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true Oh, I'd take care of you Take care of you, that's true
Bloom Myth Drifting in and out You see the road you're on It came rolling down your cheek You say just what you mean And in between It's never as it seems Help me to name it Help me to name it If you built yourself a myth You'd know just what to give What comes after this momentary bliss The consequence of what you do to me Help me to name it Help me to name it Found yourself in a new direction Arrows falling from the sun Canyon calling Would they come to greet you Let you know you're not the only one Can't keep hanging on To what is dead and gone If you built yourself a myth You'd know just what to give Materialize Or let the ashes fly Help me to name it Help me to name it Wild My mother said to me That I would get in trouble Our father won't come home 'Cause he is seeing double Out in the endless green Your eyes are so misleading That's when the car pulls up Its hood is black and gleaming And in a while You start a smile The earth is wild We've got no time Wild in our ways What we are making Heartless to say Go on pretending One chance to fall behind the lines That will not let you Can I believe in how the past is What will catch you And in a while You start to smile The earth is wild We've got no time Lazuli In the blue of this life Where it ends in the night When you couldn't see You would come for me Wonder eyes, motion high And I don't dare slip on by Make us suffer Like no other Is nothing like Lapis Lazuli Let it go Back to me Like no other You can't be replaced Like no other (Is nothing like) You can't be replaced (Lapis Lazuli) Other People So you thought it would happen Good love goodbye I know where no one can reach you No I don't mind It's your word why would you fake it These days go by As you turn around Other people want to keep in touch Something happens and it's not enough Never thought that it would mean so much Other people want to keep in touch Heaven won't keep us together Right place at the wrong time It takes all kinds of weather Distant new skies Somewhere nothing could reach us These days go by As you turn around Other people want to keep in touch Something happens and it's not enough Never thought that it would mean so much Other people want to keep in touch Was it ever quite enough The Hours Can I wait the hours Till they find me Climb up to the tower So that you could see Violence in the flowers Where they found you Can I wait the hours Would it be untrue Climb up to the tower So that you could see All across the hours Frightened eyes Looking back at me Change your mind Don't care about me Frightened eyes Looking back at me Change your mind Don't leave without me Frightened eyes Made in your reflection So that you could feel Mad in your intentions Feel it isn't real All the recollections Spinning in a field Left in your possession Till it isn't real You say it isn't real Frightened eyes Looking back at me Change your mind Don't care about me Frightened eyes Looking back at me Change your mind Don't leave without me Frightened eyes Deeper than you and me It's farther than you could see Is it too much to ask tell me It's all in a glance you'll see It's deeper than you and me It's all in a glance you'll see It's farther than we could be It's deeper than you and me Frightened eyes Troublemaker Like a hand you reached out to me Thunder rolls in with the dark Tiny fingers on the edges Watch it unravel pulling everything apart In the back we stay together The walls are shaking from within Does it become you troublemaker Watch them unravel you pulling everything apart Someday out of the blue It will find you Always Always a face to remind me Someone like you Someone like you Someone like you You watch the shape these things are taking Do you cry out in your sleep Does it become you when you're under Your heart is racing you're taking everything too hard When you walk away You show me how come Pull me under Someday out of the blue It will find you Always Always a face to remind me Someone like you Someone like you Someone like you Someday out of the blue It will find you Always Always a face to remind me New Year All I wanted comes in colours Vanish everyday Stranger things will come before you Always out of the way I keep these promises, these promises Can you call it see it coming Just enough to tell a story About a portrait of a young girl Waiting for a new year All you ever wanted is it getting away Visions of a feeling the footsteps at bay You were getting stronger memories again Now you're open wider it's better this way All I wanted comes in colours Vanish everyday I keep these promises, these promises Stranger things will come before you Always out of the way We keep these promises, these promises Won't you write a letter on the page In your own way Write it in a letter On the page It's on your own way You were getting wiser its better this way You were getting wiser Faces in the mirror memories again Now look to a feeling it's lighter than breath All you ever wanted is it getting away Can you call it see it coming Just enough to tell a story About a portrait of a young girl Waiting for the ending of an era Can you call it see it coming Just enough to tell a story About a portrait of a young girl Waiting for the new year Wishes The roses on the lawn Don't know which side you're on In a daze it will change Wishes on a wheel, wishes on a wheel The voices in the hall Will carry on their talking Carry weight you can't take Wishes on a wheel, is it even real The contact that you make The moment when a memory achess Who can tell, you do, it tell Wishes on a wheel, how's it supposed to feel One in your life It happens once and rarely twice One in your life It happens once and rarely twice The roses on the lawn Won't know which side you're on On that hill, forever still Wishes on a wheel How's it supposed to feel Wishes on a wheel... On The Sea On the sea we'd be forgiven Our bodies stopped the spirit living Wouldn't you like to know How far you've got left to go Somebody's child nobody made you It's not what you stole it's what they gave you In or out you go In your silence, your soul Would you rather go unwilling The heart is full and now it's spilling Barrelling down the steps Only a moment left In hind of sight no peace of mind Where you begin and I'm defined Daughter of unconscious fate Time will tell in spite of me In hind of sight no peace of mind It begins and we'll be fine Where shadows bend and suddenly The world becomes and swallows me Whistle to a friend Gentle til the end Anyway in a name She takes shape Just the same Irene Though you hardly know her The lights on its way The hand that rests upon it Still wanna stay No way of recognizing The cat knows the call Fair child is rising There's no mystery at all It's a strange paradise You'll be waiting
Depression Cherry
Sparks We drive around this town Houses melting down A vision turning green Is all we've ever seen And then it's dark again A new development Wishing that it meant Something natural Don't we know it's cruel I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And it goes dark again Just like a spark Hallucination comes Think of everyone That never shared before From my mouth to yours And then it's dark again Just like a spark And then it vanishes No one around And then it comes again Just like a spark And then we're vanishing No one around And then it comes again Just like a spark You go to school You follow all the rules You live inside Realize There's something in your eyes You're back again From the spine rising through the mind You give it up It's a gift Taken from the lips You live again Make it Wave it Alive
Space Song It was late at night You held on tight From an empty sea A flash of light It will take a while To make you smile Somewhere in these eyes I'm on your side You wide-eyed girls You get it right Fall back into place Fall back into place Tender is the night For a broken heart Who will dry your eyes When it falls apart I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake What makes this fragile world go 'round Were you ever lost, was she ever found Somewhere in these eyes Fall back into place Fall back into place Fall back into Fall back into place Fall back into place Fall back into...
Beyond Love Beyond Love The first thing that I do before I get into your house I'm gonna tear off all the petals from the rose that's in your mouth Beyond Love You wanted to find Elvis and I didn't understand They take the simple things inside you and put nightmares in your hands Beyond Love This man comes to me Heartbreak did this He was made to believe That he should live without it All I know is what I see No change in this Visions born in the dreams Of a world left without it We really wanna know We really do agree We really do agree We really wanna know I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake The last thing that she sees before they turn off all the lights was there A man up in the corner with the spiders made of light We really wanna know Beyond love All I know is what I see And I can't live without this Could you ever believe Beyond Love I really wanna know I really wanna know
10:37 Chances are like night you'll disappear Caught in the atmosphere Where you go, she casts no shadow Still you know she's near I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake L--a--i L--a--i Here she comes All parts of everything Stars in the motherhand With the dark Thunder above you Come to us soaring L--a--i L--a--i Chances are 10:37 House made of the dawn Disappears L--a--i L--a--i
PPP Out in the heartland I looked in your eyes And I asked "Are you ready? Ready for this life?" Did you see it coming It happened so fast The timing was perfect Water on glass I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Like tracing figure 8s On ice in skates oh well And if this ice Should break It would be My mistake Between the cities Between the thrills There's something inside you It doesn't sleep well It won't last forever Or maybe it will The white clothes they gave you You wear them so well Someone once told me In love, that you must Place all you're given In infinite trust Yet I'm tracing figure 8s On ice in skates so well And if this ice should break It would be My mistake
Wildflower No better color Looked everywhere We're driving home every night The shadows stay by your side You built a city All in your head Triangle of every light It turns you on every night Need a companion A hidden prayer You know you're not losing your mind What's left you make something of it The sky and what's left above it The way you want nothing of it Baby I'm yours I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake No better color Look everywhere You built a city All in your head You know you're not losing your mind What's left you make something of it The sky what's left above it The way you want nothing of it Wildflower
Bluebird Light that comes up on the ceiling My mouth and these arms hold a feeling Even I can't control my nature If they should come up much before you I would not ever try to capture you I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Bluebird Where you gonna go now Lead me to the gallows Where out corner of my eye there's something That's pulling me back from nothing, from nothing If there should come up much before you I would not ever try to capture you Bluebird (would not ever try) Where you gonna go now Scenes change (would not ever try) ‘fore they are over Before they are over
Days of Candy No one could find you Out on your own All things I loved But do not know On hopewell road These days of candy Live in your mind Those violet lines White fenced in miles Across my eyes A world inside you No photograph My natural one The rising sun Live in your mind Just like that, it's gone Just like that, it's gone Just like that I know it comes too soon The universe is riding off with you I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's saken, I hope, out there, I know A little bit of you I keep it close to me I know it comes too soon The universe is riding on with you I know it comes too soon I know it stays for nobody I want to know you there The universe is riding off with you
Thank Your Lucky Stars