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FROM ANDROMEDA AND BACK RADIO: SKIES THAT DO NOT FADE

I remember being in Chicago back in the day, listening to an FM rock station. After a bevy of alternative rock, the DJ suddenly put on the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. At the art store where I worked, one of the young hipsters immediately yelled, "Tchaikovsky!" and began conducting with her hands. I'll never forget that moment. We had gone from, say, Throwing Muses to Tchaikovsky, and I remember thinking: How cool was that? Here was music making its own case. It didn't plead. It didn't demand. In its own way, it rocked. And then, after that glorious interlude, it was back to alternative rock. The funny thing was that the classical piece had not seemed out of place. It held its own. It brought to the table its own heft, its own weight. It wasn't preachy. It wasn't better than. It was simply another fiber in the fabric of the day. And maybe that's the way great music should be heard. Not fenced off by genre. Not placed behind glass. Not approa...
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FROM ANDROMEDA AND BACK RADIO: "OVER AND OVER"

Beach House

Beach House goes there.

Unashamed. Vision unflinching. Lush landscapes dead ahead. Orchestral surges unapologetically rendered. A dream loop.

I know they're critical darlings, but there's a reason some clichés last and become etched in stone:

They work.

Somehow Beach House never becomes cliché, though they may appear to hit us with wave after wave of dreamy, lilting sounds. Like many of you, I've been a fan since Teen Dream. Once Twice Melody, the album "Over and Over" comes from, sustains that same airy, cool vision.

There's a reason this group has such a devoted fan base—Jay-Z and Kanye West among them—and album after album, year after year, they show us the very core of dream pop, with vocals that take wing and, once airborne, live in those starry places from which they never descend. 


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