Artist
Beach House. Baltimore dream pop, a duo: Paris-born singer and organist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally, together since 2004. Legrand comes from musical royalty. Her uncle was the Oscar-winning film composer Michel Legrand, and her aunt Christiane Legrand sang with the Swingle Singers. Slow-burning, organ-and-guitar reverie. 'Black Car', with its cold pulsing synth, is one of the darkest cuts on 7 (Sub Pop, 2018), their seventh album. Co-produced with Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom, mixed by Alan Moulder, recorded over eleven months starting in their own Baltimore studio, and it reached number 20 on the Billboard 200. Key records include Teen Dream (2010), Bloom (2012), Depression Cherry (2015) and the double album Once Twice Melody (2022). Their 2015 track 'Space Song' became a sleeper phenomenon years later, charting on the strength of hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos and a Netflix Wednesday sync. The band played festival dates in 2025 and said that year it hoped 2026 would bring both more touring and a new record.
From the notes for Episode 04 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
