| Beach House at the Cardiff Arts Institute February 16th 2010 |
 Playing tonight at the CAI is Beach House. But if you are hoping to head down to the Cardiff Arts Institute in Park Place Cardiff to see them, you better be holding a golden ticket as they sold out weeks ago. But the good news is, we're sending our roving reporter Jim Williams down to the CAI to check out the gig and write a review, which you will find here tomorrow. Beach House Despite its summery name, Beach House creates music that is dark, dreamy, and alluringly hypnotic. Baltimore residents Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand (the niece of French composer Michel Legrand) formed the duo in 2005, with Legrand's hushed, Nico-like vocals and Scally's delicate instrumentation paving the way for their first batch of songs. Within a year, Beach House had charmed indie music enthusiasts across the blogosphere with its languid songcraft, and the eerie warmth of "Apple Orchard" landed on Pitchfork's Infinite Mixtape MP3 series in August 2006. Two months later, Beach House issued its eponymous debut album for Carpark. The band remained with the Carpark label for one additional album, 2008's Devotion, before graduating to Sub Pop and releasing Teen Dream in early 2010. by MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide |