Ok, like I've said before, I saw Beach House open for Grizzly Bear this fall and thought they were okay. But go into any Urban Outfitters now, or on the music blogs, and you'll see them topping the charts. NYMag interviewed Baltimore duo-member Alex Scally about their upcoming European tour, new album "Teen Dream" and the band in general.
I'm kind of getting won over by them. The new album sounds much better than their previous two.
It'd be really fun to shoot a music video for them (16 mil, hazy, dreamlike, gorgeous but haunting aesthetic, you know what I mean?...)
Funny quotes from the interview:
"Is there a reason you’re not kicking off your tour in the U.S.?
It’s really hard to cross the mountainous, rocky terrain of America in the winter time. It just seems really treacherous to tour really far up north this time of year, but come around March people are much more ready to be alive. Whereas in Europe, they’re so beaten down after millennia of oppression, they’ll come out whenever."
"Now that you’re constantly touring, what’s your relationship like with your hometown of Baltimore?
Well, we have a practice space in Baltimore that’s our place of solace, our hub. It’s so hard to find a space like that. It’s like a really cool girlfriend. It’s our replacement girlfriend. People making music here, the families of support for musicians, I don’t think there’s anything like it anywhere else in the country. It’s an easy place to live. It’s so cheap. I think that the world of arts and music is just not very competitive, it’s really lively, but not competitive. I feel like in New York there are people with money lurking in the shadows saying, “You’re next!” That’s not happening in Baltimore. It’s like a giant adult playground."
I like this one:
"The phrase “teen dream” is sort of self-explanatory, but I’m gonna ask you to explain it anyway.
I think it’s about pulling back the veil of that composed, structured feeling we all tend to give ourselves. It’s really not for teens, or about teens. It’s about that feeling that you had and then you lost. You’ll get it back for a day at a time, or for an hour when you’re conversing with some friend. It’s all about that wild sensibility. I think that’s intellectually why we named it that. But how we picked it, like everything with our band, it was just blurted out at one point and it seemed completely appropriate. I think Victoria uttered the words."
if you like "gorgeous and haunting," i seriously suggest a respin of the first two albums. this one is less about the subtle melody than it is the totally fleshed out pop track (still really cool though)
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