First Avenue presents Beach House with special guest Bachelorette (at The Cedar) SOLD OUT

There is no denying true love, especially between us and the Baltimore City based Beach House. The super talented duo, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, first fused their respective musical creativity in 2005, releasing their self-titled debut in February of 2006 and the second, Devotion, in August of 2007.

In July the band took a break from touring to head to upstate New York to record with Chris Coady at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock. They spent a solid month in solitude writing and recording in the church-converted-to-studio compound. What they emerged with is their greatest work to date! Beach House’s third album Teen Dream will be released on Sub Pop in early 2010…WE CAN’T WAIT. Based on some of the reactions to previous works that are noted below, we think some other people might be pretty excited about it too. Beach House never rests, which means you can catch them at The Cedar in the middle of a very extensive tour. The band will be unveiling new tracks from their upcoming album at these shows, so please come visit.

“Slide guitars and steel drums seduce the listener into a world of gentle pain, making for a sophomore album that is, like its predecessor, a beautiful collection of songs and images seemingly constructed upon repulsion and ennui.”—Filter

“The melodies and arrangements take center stage, and they’re consistently stunning.”—Magnet

“These are crisper, brighter, bolder songs, retaining Beach House’s sense of elegant decay while sweeping up the debris.”—Pitchfork 8.5 Best New Music

Opening tonight will be New Zealand's intriguing tech-pop artist Bachelorette.
4/5 stars, Mojo Magazine, Sept. 2009
"... Annabel Alpers (is) a uniquely engaging oddity who captures NZ's sense of space and seclusion. Her debut, Isolation Loops, was just that, recorded in the company of vintage machinery over winter in a remote cottage, and though My Electric Family ropes in fellow musicians and feeds off warmer pop currents, it still sounds utterly removed. Alpers' flighty vocal is the female equivalent of Syd Barrett and the multitracked harmonies a Spectorish touch, but there's as much '60s Joe Meek, '70s post-punk (Mindwarp recalls Girls At Our Best's jaunty exuberance, Long Time Gone the fragile mantras of Young Marble Giants) and '80s/'90s too (Her Rotating Head occupies the giddy space between Yazoo and Stereolab) . A real treasure". Reviewed by Martin Aston.

New York Times 'Playlist': Jon Pareles, July 1, 2009
"Annabel Alpers, the songwriter from New Zealand who’s behind the studio concoctions of Bachelorette, is fascinated by the way things work: cities, androids, relationships, life and death, “the neural pathways in my brain.” Her fascination with systems and mechanisms dovetails with her music, which loops and layers her voice and instruments into lofty pop edifices, pulsating and chiming in radiant major chords. The songs on her new Bachelorette album, “My Electric Family” (Drag City), aren’t as entirely self-made as her previous work; they incorporate other musicians on guitars and drums, only enriching her reveries. The songs hint at girl groups, the Beatles, electro, Abba and Minimalism; they often start simply and spiral outward like cotton candy in the making. While her lyrics worry about technology — “It might make things seem easier for now, but where will it end?” — her music overcomes her misgivings every time she moves into another blissful chorale of airy la-las and da-da-das."

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