Friday, March 16   1:00 a.m.
The Tap Room at Six   (117 W 4th St)

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Beach House, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, have been playing music forever, since childhood in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and France. Their songs start simple and grow organically like tiny skeletons that multiply layers of necessary flesh. In the Beach House world, outside influences have been purely atmospheric. There are many groups and artists that have entranced the duo: Zombies, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, Big Star, Chris Bell, the list goes on; however, there isn't one particular group or artist that Beach House admires more than another. By not forcing the way their songs come to fruition and by allowing all of their ideas to exist and play freely, an otherworldy space is created: organs, slide guitars, reverb, harmony, layers, accidents, echoes and melodies stand by themselves like the ones in everyone's childhood memories.

With the first album, each song is a vision and a member of a larger family. The words and sounds and structures create individual rooms within the Beach House. Snowflakes melting in a music box, heated by the sun. Please enjoy.