Beach House

Beach House are the Baltimore dream-pop duo of 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. Their music is slow-burning, organ-and-guitar reverie, and '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 and recorded over eleven months starting in their own Baltimore studio; 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), and 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 Sep 23, 2026.