The Beach House you’re about to meet isn’t the same you may remember from before. Lives have been shuffled, tangled and re-aligned.

 

When Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally returned home to Baltimore last winter, they were worn thin from touring and travel. But deep inside them hot energies were incubating, ideas they had been whispering back and forth in the wake of their sophomore full-length, 2008’s Devotion. By the following spring they began handing themselves over completely to those impulses, holing themselves up and exchanging ideas in a new, secluded practice space for dangerously long periods of time. As the songs that would become Teen Dream began to live, breathe and take shape, the duo was forced to leave much of their personal lives behind them. “We’re the same people, but this record has changed our directions,” Legrand muses. “We were forced to let go of people and things we were holding onto as individuals: normalcy, daily rituals, the ability to take care of ourselves. We were dropped into a wilderness, but we had more clarity than we’ve ever had before.”

 

Still driven to avoid distraction, the two marched further into isolation, to bottle up all those wild visions away from home. They packed up their lives and settled into a converted church in upstate New York with producer Chris Coady. For a month they continued the birthing process, sweating and pushing out sounds inside a cocoon of their very own weaving. “It wasn’t about arriving at a church and it revolutionizing a feeling,” Scally notes. “It was a continuation of what we were doing without disruption. Whenever something good happens, we look at each other and we know that was it. It’s instinctual and it’s private.” Through the course of a month, they chased down songs and dark rushes, the creative telepathy that Scally and Legrand share together taking a strangely physical hold. “There’s a different level of intimacy, a physicality on Teen Dream,” Legrand explains, pacing back and forth. “Rhythmically, there’s new motion. This record touches you. On your chest.”

 

The skyward pulse of “Walk In the Park” and “10 Mile Stereo” elicit just those reactions, two vibrant, volcanic examples of a record and band bursting at its incandescent seams. It is without question, more expansive and moving than anything they have shared before. “I’m ready to give it away,” Legrand says of this, their first effort as part of the Sub Pop family. “I’m done holding onto it. I want to give it away, I want it to become something else for people. It is born now."

 

Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand are from Baltimore, Maryland. They are not a couple and Teen Dream is their third full-length album.

 

ALBUM STREAMING

1. Zebra

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ipyWYO3LM]YouTube- Beach House - Zebra[/ame]

2. Silver Soul

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIGvqxN--aY]YouTube- Beach House - silver soul[/ame]

3. Norway

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbtR8uO81M]YouTube- Beach House -- Norway[/ame]

4. Walk in the Park

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ElJ9uXZmM0]YouTube- Beach House - Walk in the Park[/ame]

5. Used to Be

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXP3y1eH-M0]YouTube- SXSW 2009 Music Video: Beach House - Used to be[/ame]

6. Lover of Mine

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5hkqTiAPI]YouTube- Beach House- Lover of Mine[/ame]

7. Better Times

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPoGhXcrLgQ]YouTube- Beach House - Better Times[/ame]

8. 10 Mile Stereo

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rYQRxzaJM]YouTube- Beach House - 10 mile stereo[/ame]

9. Real Love

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0toW_SJf-4]YouTube- REAL LOVE[/ame]

10. Take Care

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_t5vR1U9AU]YouTube- Beach House - Take Care[/ame]

I love the new album so much, Zebra and Lover of Mine <3

I think this will definitely be in my top 5 albums of 2010.

^^

this is already in my top 5

I really like it as well. The standard for the year is rather good so far.

love this album... listened to it yesterday... it was great!

I'll be picking it up tomorrow before class. I guess it comes with a DVD with vids for all the songs on it.

 

Pitchfork gave it a very deserving 9.0 and Best New Music today.

oh wow didn't know it came w/ an extra dvd.

 

i'll be picking it up tomorrow as well in the city

just listened to it, first time I hear anything from Beach House...

 

it was goooooood :charming:

they're also good live... i saw them open for Grizzly Bear. They're a really chill band live, and their light show worked well with the light shining behind the lead vocalist. Also the venue for the concert was great w/ it being a chapel... letting there be a really nice natural reverb which works perfectly for beach house's sound. i might try and see them live in a few months

Teen Dream is so amazing

I love love love love love them!

 

Lover of Mine is amazing <3

I supported them in Oslo a couple of years ago. amazing people :)

 

Jealous! Who else have you played with?

I can't stop listening to this album.

Amazing album. I love it !

I can't stop listening to this album.

 

Neither. What are everyone's favourite tracks?

Used to Be

Take Care of You

Lover of Mine

Walk in the Park, Zebra, Norway, Silver Soul, Better Times, Take Care and also the itunes bonus track Baby

Take Care of You

Lover of Mine

Zebra

Real Love

Mine are Zebra, Lover of mine, take care, used to be.

Lover of Mine is the best :blush:

Agreed. I have an eargasm. I also have a feeling this is going to be a good year in music.

just got tickets to see them in may :dance:

just got tickets to see them in may :dance:

 

I want to see them so bad, but they're coming here on a school night :disappointed:

posted some live videos on pitchfork tv of them doing "Zebra", "Norway" and "Walk in the Park":

http://pitchfork.com/tv/