Beach House Announce Frightened Eyes 2012 Tour

Some of you may be fans of Beach House, and you may find the press release below of value.

I always get them confused with Sleigh Bells or Mates of State, so I'm leaving it up to you to sort it out.

"Sub Pop Records and Beach House are pleased to announce the "Frightened Eyes" 2012 tour, in support of Bloom, the Baltimore-based band’s critically acclaimed new album. The tour will begin September 13^th in Richmond, VA at The National and close on November 19^th at Paradiso in Amsterdam, NL. 

Visit http://www.beachhousebaltimore.com/tour for presale tickets to shows on Beach House's "Frightened Eyes" Tour (North American concert dates are on sale Wednesday June 13th at 10am).
 

The band’s extraordinary new video, directed by Allen Cordell (who also directed Beach House's video for "Walk in the Park”), for Bloom's lead single "Lazuli,” also debuts today. 

Beach House is currently wrapping up a run of European dates, which ends on June 9^th in Porto, PT at the Primavera Festival. The band will then resume US touring on July 1st in San Diego, CA at the House of Blues and wrap up with a sold-out performance on July 23^rd at Central Park’s SummerStage. Highlight performances also include July 13^th in Louisville, KY at Forecastle Festival and July 15^th in Chicago, IL at the Pitchfork Music Festival.

Beach House will return to Europe for a short run of festival and club dates, beginning August 24^th in Katowice, Poland at Tauron Nowan Muzyka Fest and ending on August 31^st in Dorset, UK at the End of the Road Festival. A complete list of Beach House tour dates is below

In further exciting news, Beach House will make their second national TV appearance for Bloom on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on July 24^th (@ 12:30pm ET/11:30pm CT)."

Tour Dates (Buy tickets here)
Jun. 07 – Blarritz, FR – L'Atabal
Jun. 08/09 – Porto, PT – Primavera Festival (evening)
Jul. 01 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues*
Jul. 03 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre*
Jul. 06 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen *
Jul. 07 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater *
Jul. 09 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom *
Jul. 10 – Lawrence, KS – Liberty Hall *
Jul. 11 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant *
Jul. 12 – Memphis, TN – Inglewood Hall *
Jul. 13 – Louisville, KY – Forestcastle Festival *
Jul. 15 – Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
Jul. 17 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue *
Jul. 18 – Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom *
Jul. 19 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues Tickets  *
Jul. 20 – Columbus, OH  – Newport Music Hall *
Jul. 21 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Small’s Theatre *
Jul. 23 – New York, NY – Central Park Summerstage
Aug. 24 – Katowice, PL – Tauron Nowan Muzyka Fest
Aug. 26 – Paris, FR – Rock en Seine
Aug. 27 – Groningen, NL – Vera
Aug. 28 – Duisburg, DE – Grammatikoff
Aug. 29 – Frankfurt, DE – Das Bett
Aug. 31 – Dorset, UK – End of the Road Festival


Frightened Eyes 2012 Tour
Sep. 13 ­– Richmond, VA – The National
Sep. 14 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre
Sep. 15 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
Sep. 16 – Atlanta, GA – Variety
Sep. 18 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s
Sep. 19 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
Sep. 20 – Austin, TX – Emo’s East
Sep. 21 – Dallas, TX – Palladium
Sep. 24 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto
Sep. 25 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Sep. 28 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
Sep. 29 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
Sep. 30 – Portland, OR – Roseland
Oct. 01 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
Oct. 05 – Boise, ID – Egyptian Theatre 
Oct. 04 – Seattle, WA – Showbox @ The Market
Oct. 07 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
Oct. 09 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave.
Oct. 10 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre
Oct. 11 – Chicago, IL – Riviera
Oct. 13 – Toronto, ON – Kool Haus
Oct. 15 – Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre
Oct. 16 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Oct. 17 – Washington DC – 930 Club

* w/ Wild Nothing

Beach House - Beach House

Beach House is a duo from Baltimore, Maryland consisting of Victoria Legrand on lead vocals/organ and Alex Scally on guitar. Their nine song debut released last fall has received the obligatory associations that any band of this style (late 60’s psychedelia) and of this number (a duo) would be expected receive.
If I were to take all the comparisons to Mazzy Star as gospel, I would be all over this thing like Christ on a cross. The fact is, it’s actually more like Opal, David Roback’s band with Kendra Smith before he gained recognition with Mazzy.
Then again, being compared to Opal is perhaps even a little more worthy in my book.
Truth be told, Beach House is way more barren than Happy Nightmare Baby. With an organ and a reverb drenched slide guitar as the main musical backdrop, Legrand’s vocals are clearly the spotlight instrument and it’s one that’s not quite fully developed.
Scally misses a few notes here and there which, strangely, add even more to already obvious narcotic feel.
The primitive production places a lot of echo under Legrand’s voice, which is occasionally double tracked throughout the disc. Scally’s guitar is a wall of sound in the mix with a lone organ (sometimes with a baroque feel, other times with a Rhodes setting, and some with a more traditional sound), propelled by a tambourine or the rhythm generator directly on the keyboard itself.
Outside of the aforementioned influences, there seems to be a lineage to Nico’s more avant-garde offerings on Reprise (The Marble Index and Desertshore). While Legrand possesses a style that’s not as identifiable as Nico, she carries a more mainstream approach and displays a greater range than the German chanteuse.
Beach House has an intentional demo quality throughout the disc, and because of that, there’s really nothing that stands out beyond noteworthy. The opener “Saltwater,” “Master Of None” and the epic closer “Heart And Lungs” all touch on some great things while “Auburn And Ivory” and “Childhood” hint at it. The remaining tracks seem content with merely channeling elements of the band’s influences, seemingly content with sounding out of place in an environment where Pro-Tools-created abilities are (thankfully) avoided. The downfall is that the direction they’ve decided to pursue shows the duo’s limitations, which points to the obvious fact that Beach House simply needed a few more rehearsals before committing their material to tape.
In other words: this Beach House still needs a few minor repairs before its ready to be lived in.