”Playing those songs from Devotion every night, it really helped us learn what we didn’t want to do again and we started to crave this kind of energy that we hadn’t done before. You can feel that in songs like ‘10 Mile Stereo’.” -VL
Victoria Legrand shares some of her favorite songs in the July issue of Nylon, with M.I.A. on the cover.
Wear no sunblock, stand by the largest speaker, down a bottle of vodka and wear uncomfortable shoes. And stare at everyone very confrontationally.
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| — | Summer festival advice from Victoria. |
”For me, it’s a heavy train rolling along, a song about someone who really wants to be loved. When I was writing it, the words flowed out of me pretty smoothly. I saw in my mind an imaginary scene: a dark room in a tower and a solitary man. And books and useless knowledge. And I saw a voyage.”
-Victoria talking about “Heart of Chambers”
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This clip is from a train ride through the mountains in 2008. A Norwegian TV program asked Beach House to write & perform a new song while on a train from Bergen to Oslo. The result was Norway.
Here’s a video.
“Take Care” from the album release show in Brooklyn January 26, 2010.
Here’s the entire set & an interview.
