To best understand the impact and influence of Beach House in the 2010s, do not read the rave reviews or scour the year-end and decade lists. Yes, Bloom and Depression Cherry debuted in the Billboard ...

They are the internet’s favorite band, I think, because their music can function both as an anonymous haze and as startlingly specific when it needs to be. Most times, the “you” in the singer Victoria ...

So many bands come and go. Or to be specific, a lot of groups who formed in the late 00s/early 2010s have dissolved into dust. Some solo acts continue to excel: Toro Y Moi, Grimes, Blood Orange. But ...

For a band 14 years and seven albums into their career, the Beach House experience can only be described as phenomenally untroubled. The personal turbulence and aesthetic sputters that come to plague ...

Do those qualify as jazz hands? After playing together in another Baltimore band, Victoria Legrand (a graduate of Vassar) and Alex Scally (a graduate of Oberlin) spun off and out on their own to form ...

An hour into our conversation, Victoria Legrand names the feeling. “We’re kids pretending to be grown ups.” Alex Scally, Beach House’s other half, is cruising along two beers in, shoes off and cozied ...

As if entering the beginning of a dream somewhere in a ballroom, the audience could just make out the silhouettes of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally through fog and back lights as they appropriately ...

For someone who makes such minimalist and ethereal music, Beach House singer-keyboardist Victoria Legrand sure can be voluminous. Legrand and Alex Scally craft dreamy, slow-moving songs with emotional ...