Beach House - Lazuli

I saw Beach House at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver last night and they blew my mind. Beautiful, dazzling, lush, chill, melodic, gorgeous. Just some words to describe the impeccable sound created by singer/keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally. They also featured a third member, a drummer, something they did not have the first 2 times I saw them at music festivals. Such an incredible addition to get that live backbeat sound. From the opening note of the first song I was hooked, along with the rest of the sold out crowd. This was definitely one of the best shows I've seen this year (Big K.R.I.T. and Bon Iver are others) and the best at the Commodore Ballroom in a while. 

We got there 15 minutes before it started (missed the opener... oh well) and had just enough time for a shot of tequila and a couple beers. They played for an hour and a half and played basically everything I wanted to hear. Highlights included opener "Wild", "Norway", "Zebra" one of the best songs there is period, a brilliant ballad that was just Victoria's voice and some quiet guitar that I'm still not positive which song it was but I think it was "Real Love" and closer 'Irene". Victoria didn't address the crowd much and hid behind her massive hair for a lot of the show. But it didn't matter at all because they kept the beautiful music coming; something that everyone was there to see. The set was relatively simple, with 4 striped towers that changed colour. The pic above is from that show. Great crowd and a great crew that I went with! Worth all $40 for sure and gonna be tough to top that show this year.

"Lazuli" is my favourite song off their new album, Bloom. It was also the fifth or sixth song in the set and it really kicked the show up another gear (and when my brownie got going ;). I love the repetitive ending, the shimmering guitar, and "huhh uhh uhhs" at the beginning. Such a beautiful song, like all of Beach House's music. The video is also pretty damn cool and kinda trippy.

Some thoughts...

- Got zero responses from my epic rant about Romney... My guess is that nobody wants to read my bullshit lol. But also I still think it's sad that most probably just didn't have "time" and couldn't be bothered. I do understand where this attitude is coming from... it's just sad that it exists. I also posted it at a poor time of day (Friday afternoon)...

- Crushed the competition last week in fantasy football (82 points from 4 players for fuck's sake!) and moved into second place in the west at 3-1. The guy in front of me (Team EPIC) is 4-0 and my only loss this season so far.

- Super stoked for Miguel Cabrera and his hunt for baseball's elusive triple crown (lead league in rbi's, home runs, and batting average) a feat that has not been achieved since 1967. Right now he's got a solid lead in rbi's and avg and a 1 hr lead atm). THEN I watched some fucking tool (The Score's Rob Pizzo) try to argue that some other guy deserves MVP over him. Give me a fucking break. We're talking history here, bro.

- HOLY FUCK Beach House was good. I loved them going into it but this show solidified them as one of my favourite bands ever.

- Stitches in your mouth blooooowwwww