Beach House

Beach House is a keyboard/guitar duo who produces some of the more well-rounded examples of dream pop today.  The songs are typically low to mid-tempo, with lush synthesizer work that fills the canvas with shades and textures of swirling sound effects, chords, and melodic lines. The guitar often participates in a reverbed arpeggio around the keyboards rather than pushing to lead. Legrand's voice is calm, soft, and, as it so often happens in this genre, quite dreamy. It is not that hard to imagine most of their songs doing just fine as indie pop songs ready to be consumed by the masses by making a few adjustments in the instrumentation that shift the focus away from atmospherics and towards their often well articulated melodies. Their music has grown perhaps a bit swirlier and moodier over the years. Having been around since the mid '00s, the band has built quite a good catalog to dive into.