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Best Music of 2010 (So Far): Rachael Maddux, Associate Editor

Does two still come before three?  read more

Beach House: Teen Dream

Baltimore duo wakes up, shakes up Teen Dream sounds just like Beach House and not at all like Beach House. On their first two albums, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally created warm, lo-fi pop songs that favored subdued ambience over pronounced hooks, as if each song was designed to dissipate in the air between the speakers and your ears. By contrast, the duo’s new songs are less hazy and more forceful—they actually project. Singing in a bold style that suggests a huskier-voiced Kate Bush, Legrand sounds androgynous on “Walk in the Park” and breathy on “Norway.” Scally, meanwhile, creates prickly...  read more

Watch a New Beach House Video Every Day This Week

Next week, Baltimore bedroom-pop duo and former Paste band of the week, Beach House, will release its third full-length and Sub Pop debut, Teen Dream. Back in November, singer Victoria Legrand told Paste that the new album would come packaged with a DVD of music videos. This week, some of those videos are streaming at Gorilla Vs. Bear....  read more

Download Beach House's "Norway"

Download Beach House's "Norway" here.Beach House's Teen Dream is tentatively scheduled for an early 2010 release on Sub Pop....  read more

Beach House Talks New Album, Teen Dream

The record "was much more like a plunge into isolation, much more of shutting things out and working long hours and really obsessing on things..."  read more