Beach House/Hot Chip
The popularity of the duo Beach House has reached new heights, thanks to their appearance at the CMJ Festival.
They are from Baltimore, which might be the perfect inspiration for a fall/winter soundtrack like this one. Victoria Legrand's vocals are stunning as she shimmers through organ drenched reverb in her Nico like flavor. It's a slow motion soundtrack for your rainy day blues. A nice release.
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Meanwhile, a band with a completely different sound than Beach House, stormed through CMJ last week. Hot Chip had one of the better turnouts of the festival, as they previewed a few new tracks from their upcoming album. Their Kraftwerk like melodies and their five banks of keyboards filled the stage with a highly anticipated album for 2007. In fact, they will start recording the new record in January, as they recently scrapped nine songs they had already recorded.
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I hadn't heard of Beach House till I got this iTunes promo card they were handing out during CMJ good for 120 free songs from bands playing CMJ. I fell instantly in love with their track "Master Of None" playing it over and over and over. Great ambient pop
Posted by: Taylor | November 08, 2006 at 07:15 PM