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beach house – zebra (ring trick remix)

I make no secret of the fact that I typically write up these posts a few days in advance. Because, let’s be honest, I’m kind of lazy, so its tough to keep up with something on a daily basis. But I just heard this one late at night and decided to write it up on the fly. My first thought when I saw a Beach House remix was, “Oh no they di’in”, because I expected it to be terrible. Actually, I think I just had no idea at all what to expect from a remix of a song from one of my favorite albums of the year thus far (qualifying statement: despite the fact that it’s only mid February, it has already been an exceptional year for new music). But any doubt I had was quickly relinquished thanks to San Fran’s Ring Trick. …read more and hear the song…

beach house – norway

beach house is the baltimore band composed of victoria legrand and alex scally (and im pretty sure their myspace page background is a picture from cute overload. their third album, entitled “teen dream” is being released in january and is among one of the numerous highly anticipated releases coming in the first quarter of 2010. besides working on a new album in near isolation, the band contributed a track to the fantabulous “dark was the night” compilation that ive oft blogged about through the year, and vicky (i bet she hates being called vicky, what do you think?) also provided vocals to grizzly bears “slow life” which can be found on the “gag” new moon soundtrack. …read more and hear the song…