WEBVTT - Beach House 0:00:15.436 --> 0:00:23.316 Pushkin. Hey, y'all, it's justin Richmond. Today we have Beach 0:00:23.356 --> 0:00:26.236 House on the show. The Baltimore indie band known for 0:00:26.276 --> 0:00:30.436 their cinematic, psychedelic songs. They're one of those bands that 0:00:30.476 --> 0:00:33.756 manages to envelope you in a sonic landscape when they play, 0:00:34.116 --> 0:00:36.476 You'll hear exactly what I'm talking about. In the title 0:00:36.476 --> 0:00:53.036 track for their new album, Once Twice Melody, Victoria La 0:00:53.076 --> 0:00:56.916 Grand and Alex Scally have a very special musical chemistry. 0:00:57.316 --> 0:00:59.876 Their two thousand and six self titled debut was a 0:00:59.956 --> 0:01:04.276 moving collection of lo fi songs built around Victoria's dreamy 0:01:04.356 --> 0:01:08.796 vocals and synth based loops, topped with Alex's lush guitar riffs. 0:01:09.316 --> 0:01:11.756 The songs have since been sampled by artists like Kendrick 0:01:11.836 --> 0:01:15.316 Lamar and The Weekend, and Kanye West even recently posted 0:01:15.316 --> 0:01:18.996 a picture of himself collaborating with them on Instagram. The 0:01:18.996 --> 0:01:22.076 band's new album debuted at number one, and it's their 0:01:22.076 --> 0:01:25.636 first entirely self produced album and also the most dynamic 0:01:25.796 --> 0:01:28.676 in scope. They tell Broken Record producer Lea Rose on 0:01:28.716 --> 0:01:32.836 today's episode about the inner workings of their unique creative partnership. 0:01:33.116 --> 0:01:35.356 They also talk about how the warmth of Bob Marley's 0:01:35.436 --> 0:01:39.196 music has directly inspired the band, and they explain why 0:01:39.236 --> 0:01:41.916 sometimes you have to just get over yourself for the 0:01:42.036 --> 0:01:48.836 sake of show business. This is broken record liner notes 0:01:48.836 --> 0:01:52.876 for the Digital Age. I'm justin Richmond. Here's Lea Rose 0:01:52.956 --> 0:01:56.076 with Victoria La Grand and Alex Galley of Beach House. 0:01:56.916 --> 0:01:58.636 So thank you guys so much for doing this. I 0:01:58.676 --> 0:02:00.676 guess by the time this comes out, you guys are 0:02:00.716 --> 0:02:03.436 going to be back on the road, which must be 0:02:03.476 --> 0:02:08.316 super exciting hopefully and not terrifying. What's it been like 0:02:08.556 --> 0:02:10.436 being off the road during the pandemics. You guys have 0:02:10.476 --> 0:02:15.196 been on tour for like fifteen years straight, pretty much, right, Yes, 0:02:15.396 --> 0:02:18.436 it's been totally strange to not be out in the world, 0:02:18.436 --> 0:02:20.836 but I think everybody can relate to that. But touring 0:02:20.836 --> 0:02:24.676 has been a huge part of our career and you know, 0:02:24.716 --> 0:02:28.316 inspiration and all that stuff. So we're very excited. Yeah, 0:02:28.356 --> 0:02:34.556 Like humans are really inspiring, strangers are really inspiring, and 0:02:34.596 --> 0:02:37.436 like the situation of shows, both as playing and as 0:02:37.476 --> 0:02:40.636 in spectator is just so beautiful, you know. So it's 0:02:40.636 --> 0:02:42.716 been it's been I think everyone feels the way, it's 0:02:42.716 --> 0:02:44.876 been insane not having that as a regular part of 0:02:44.916 --> 0:02:47.756 life for two and a half years or three years, 0:02:47.836 --> 0:02:51.236 however long it's been that we've been in this fugue state. 0:02:52.356 --> 0:02:54.556 How are you thinking about the live show now that 0:02:54.596 --> 0:02:56.716 you're about to go back out with the new album out. 0:02:56.996 --> 0:03:00.276 Have you made any big changes to the show? We're 0:03:00.676 --> 0:03:03.036 kind of picking up where we left off from the 0:03:03.036 --> 0:03:07.156 seven tour because it was just such a what we 0:03:07.236 --> 0:03:09.996 really liked where the show, how it developed over the tour, 0:03:10.116 --> 0:03:11.916 So we're picking up there, and we just spent a 0:03:11.956 --> 0:03:15.556 lot of weeks actually in pre production with our whole crew. 0:03:15.596 --> 0:03:18.396 It was really really fun, and so yeah, it's basically 0:03:18.676 --> 0:03:20.996 an advanced level of the last show, but we've spent 0:03:21.116 --> 0:03:22.836 a lot of time because we didn't want it to 0:03:22.876 --> 0:03:24.436 have to develop on the road. We wanted it to 0:03:24.476 --> 0:03:27.636 be like the fully realized version of itself at show one. 0:03:27.996 --> 0:03:29.916 How do you guys get in the mood to play 0:03:29.916 --> 0:03:31.836 a show once you're out on tour and you're in 0:03:31.876 --> 0:03:33.876 the thick of it. If you wake up and you're 0:03:33.876 --> 0:03:37.636 just kind of feeling off, like physically off or mentally off, 0:03:37.676 --> 0:03:39.996 how do you get yourself in a place where you're 0:03:39.996 --> 0:03:42.396 ready to stand in front of a crowd and do 0:03:42.436 --> 0:03:44.116 what you have to do for an hour and forty 0:03:44.116 --> 0:03:49.556 five minutes. It's called you have to it's called grow up, 0:03:49.836 --> 0:03:54.236 it's called it's show business. It's called Look, it's not 0:03:54.316 --> 0:03:56.796 anyone else's fault. You stayed up till five in the morning. 0:03:57.516 --> 0:04:01.836 Get yourself together and do it. It's like you have 0:04:01.996 --> 0:04:04.836 a job, but it's not like a nine to five job. 0:04:04.876 --> 0:04:09.356 But it's a responsibility and you have, you know, worked 0:04:09.356 --> 0:04:12.316 your butt off to put this thing together. And we're 0:04:12.396 --> 0:04:16.276 lucky people who get to have people come, you know, 0:04:16.996 --> 0:04:20.116 see them, listen to them. Yeah, but just from like 0:04:20.116 --> 0:04:22.876 like the specifics point of view, you know, like one 0:04:22.876 --> 0:04:25.636 thing you have to remind yourself on the road, and 0:04:25.716 --> 0:04:27.916 we do remind ourselves of this is like, yes, this 0:04:27.996 --> 0:04:30.316 is your third show in a row, but this is 0:04:30.356 --> 0:04:34.196 the first time you've played in Cincinnati in five years. 0:04:34.316 --> 0:04:37.316 And clear and be in the moment and realize that 0:04:37.356 --> 0:04:39.876 this could be a special night for some of your 0:04:39.876 --> 0:04:41.596 fans who have never seen you before. You know, it's 0:04:41.636 --> 0:04:44.636 just like get out. It's like, go beyond yourself. It's 0:04:44.676 --> 0:04:46.636 not about you, you know. It's like that's what I 0:04:46.676 --> 0:04:48.276 was trying to say, is that it's it's a show 0:04:48.316 --> 0:04:50.676 and it's other people, you know, and it's not about you. 0:04:50.756 --> 0:04:53.956 And there is something like militaristic in the sense of 0:04:53.996 --> 0:04:57.076 like touring is. You know, you do like wear your 0:04:57.116 --> 0:04:59.836 body down and you do lose sleep, and you do 0:05:00.076 --> 0:05:03.236 like feel crazily destroyed at the end of it. But 0:05:03.356 --> 0:05:06.596 it should be because you gave all of yourself to people, 0:05:06.676 --> 0:05:09.316 and that's that's what it should be. Like. Yeah, and 0:05:09.156 --> 0:05:11.796 and also you know, like we we listen to music, 0:05:11.836 --> 0:05:14.316 We have various things we do before the show to 0:05:14.476 --> 0:05:16.996 get into that, to get into the moment. You know, 0:05:18.476 --> 0:05:20.196 do you guys play the same show every night? Is 0:05:20.196 --> 0:05:23.876 it the same set list? No, we vary it for Sanity, 0:05:24.236 --> 0:05:26.356 Like it's just always been that way for us. And 0:05:26.636 --> 0:05:28.996 so you know, our set is usually about an hour 0:05:29.276 --> 0:05:33.036 forty five minutes, and that for us is usually between 0:05:33.076 --> 0:05:36.836 eighteen and twenty songs. And as the tour goes on, 0:05:36.956 --> 0:05:41.276 usually because we're still learning, the first week will be 0:05:41.396 --> 0:05:44.316 kind of similar sets, but then we start to really 0:05:44.396 --> 0:05:46.756 start peppering in deeper cuts. And we have a thing 0:05:46.796 --> 0:05:50.196 on our website called the set list Creator where you 0:05:50.476 --> 0:05:52.156 choose the date of the show you're going to and 0:05:52.196 --> 0:05:54.356 then you can enter your top three choices. Oh that's 0:05:54.356 --> 0:05:56.796 so cool. Yeah, And it was just something we've always 0:05:56.796 --> 0:05:59.116 wanted to do. And it's really fun because we consulted daily, 0:05:59.316 --> 0:06:01.956 and you know, obviously their songs will play most nights, 0:06:02.316 --> 0:06:06.116 but for like maybe like the deeper in our catalog song, 0:06:06.196 --> 0:06:08.236 we'll use that to find which song it should be 0:06:08.276 --> 0:06:10.356 for a given show. So I want to talk about 0:06:10.396 --> 0:06:13.396 the band's formative years. And you guys have been making 0:06:13.476 --> 0:06:16.996 music together now for close to twenty years. Well, we 0:06:17.076 --> 0:06:18.876 met in two thousand and four, and our first song 0:06:18.916 --> 0:06:20.476 was written in two thousand and five, so I guess 0:06:20.556 --> 0:06:23.716 about seventeen years. Seventeen years, I guess when you guys 0:06:23.756 --> 0:06:26.996 came together and formed the band. What was the original 0:06:27.036 --> 0:06:30.356 thought for the aesthetic of the band. I don't think 0:06:30.356 --> 0:06:33.836 we were going for an aesthetic. I think that our 0:06:33.956 --> 0:06:37.396 becoming a band was like really about two people who 0:06:37.596 --> 0:06:41.516 met each other and immediately started making music out of 0:06:41.556 --> 0:06:44.796 like necessity. I was introduced to Alex through a friend 0:06:44.836 --> 0:06:47.076 that I had met in college who was a musician 0:06:47.116 --> 0:06:50.196 who lived in Baltimore, and then I meet Alex and 0:06:50.236 --> 0:06:54.076 then pretty much from that moment start playing music with him, 0:06:54.116 --> 0:06:56.716 and then a couple months later, he and I are 0:06:56.756 --> 0:07:00.716 hanging out and we are like making Saltwater from the 0:07:00.756 --> 0:07:02.956 first which would be, you know, the first song we 0:07:02.996 --> 0:07:06.236 ever wrote together and also on the first record, So 0:07:06.876 --> 0:07:09.796 the aesthetic of what we're doing is not the first 0:07:09.956 --> 0:07:13.236 thing that happened. So this, this journey started because of 0:07:14.116 --> 0:07:17.036 you know, music first, and then as we made sounds 0:07:17.076 --> 0:07:20.116 and made songs, we started to discover the you know, 0:07:20.596 --> 0:07:23.116 the look of the first record. But but just just 0:07:23.156 --> 0:07:25.756 to like give you an idea of our creative process. 0:07:25.916 --> 0:07:29.316 So the sound of Beach House when we started was 0:07:29.916 --> 0:07:32.916 Victoria had two keyboards and she liked the way they sounded. 0:07:32.916 --> 0:07:34.876 Why did she find those keyboards? We don't. It's like 0:07:34.956 --> 0:07:39.036 it's like you're naturally drawn to things. They were nothing special. 0:07:39.716 --> 0:07:43.116 I had, you know, a guitar I was borrowing from someone, 0:07:43.276 --> 0:07:47.316 and these organs that I was collecting, and we used 0:07:47.356 --> 0:07:49.516 a four track tape machine, which I had been using 0:07:49.556 --> 0:07:52.076 since I was twelve years old. I like love four 0:07:52.116 --> 0:07:54.156 track tape machines. So we just had these things. They 0:07:54.156 --> 0:07:56.676 were our inherent interests and there was no like, I 0:07:56.716 --> 0:07:59.156 think we should sound like this, like there was no option. 0:07:59.396 --> 0:08:01.556 There was zero option of what we would sound like 0:08:02.476 --> 0:08:04.436 it was just like so natural and there was no 0:08:04.556 --> 0:08:06.196 like we're going to be a band, Like there was 0:08:06.276 --> 0:08:13.196 no forethought, no pretend, no vision. It was just just 0:08:13.396 --> 0:08:15.796 one foot going in front of the other and it 0:08:15.836 --> 0:08:18.156 felt very very natural. Yeah, it seems like that's the 0:08:18.196 --> 0:08:20.116 way that you make music as well. It's like you 0:08:20.156 --> 0:08:22.316 don't think about a project before you start it. A 0:08:22.316 --> 0:08:24.836 project just starts and then you just sort of keep 0:08:24.876 --> 0:08:27.836 up with a momentum and it evolves into what it 0:08:28.076 --> 0:08:31.996 evolves into. Yes, that's a good way of looking at it. 0:08:32.036 --> 0:08:35.236 And you know, I think that it was natural how 0:08:35.276 --> 0:08:37.676 we started working together. But then I think a lot 0:08:37.676 --> 0:08:40.876 of the things we made were out of necessity too, 0:08:40.996 --> 0:08:43.396 because like we of what we had around us and 0:08:44.076 --> 0:08:46.196 it was all just kind of sitting right there. It's 0:08:46.236 --> 0:08:49.156 so telling like how you approach art, because if it 0:08:49.196 --> 0:08:51.996 were me, I feel like I would be so conscious 0:08:51.996 --> 0:08:55.316 of every single little thing and I would be like, 0:08:55.596 --> 0:08:58.676 you know, really thinking about the cover art, the name, 0:08:59.156 --> 0:09:01.516 the way the name looks in the font, Like everything 0:09:01.556 --> 0:09:05.036 would be so overly thought out. So it's so cool 0:09:05.076 --> 0:09:06.516 for me to hear that. It's like, oh, you just 0:09:06.996 --> 0:09:10.476 you have your instruments that you have access to two keyboards. 0:09:10.516 --> 0:09:12.236 That's all it is, and you sit there and it 0:09:12.276 --> 0:09:18.476 just happens. Yeah, it's that, but but we do pay 0:09:18.516 --> 0:09:22.036 a lot of attention to the details, like the fonts 0:09:22.196 --> 0:09:26.756 and the album art. So it's we're kind of two sides, 0:09:26.996 --> 0:09:30.276 you know. It's generated from within. Yeah, the whole universe 0:09:30.316 --> 0:09:33.916 of our esthetic, which is an interesting word, comes from 0:09:33.956 --> 0:09:37.116 the inside. It comes from the hearth, right, so like 0:09:38.236 --> 0:09:40.836 the heat that is inside of the thing that creates 0:09:40.916 --> 0:09:44.076 the music. And it started from the first record. It 0:09:44.116 --> 0:09:46.876 was like, okay, this music, how does this make us feel? 0:09:46.956 --> 0:09:49.556 That's how we got our band name. The word beach 0:09:49.556 --> 0:09:52.716 house came out and there were other words attached to 0:09:52.756 --> 0:09:54.836 it and other types of words, and we were floating 0:09:54.836 --> 0:09:56.636 them around, but it came from what is this feeling 0:09:56.636 --> 0:09:59.636 that we're creating. That's where we got beach House. And 0:09:59.676 --> 0:10:02.316 then it was you know, what are the colors are 0:10:02.316 --> 0:10:04.396 the what are the textures of this record? And the 0:10:04.436 --> 0:10:06.596 first record had all the jewels on the cover and 0:10:06.636 --> 0:10:09.436 like the tones and what was and then the font 0:10:09.476 --> 0:10:13.156 of the band name on that cover is my handwriting. 0:10:13.916 --> 0:10:15.716 I made that thing, and you know, and then every 0:10:15.716 --> 0:10:18.156 album since then has been the same type of process, 0:10:18.196 --> 0:10:21.796 Like we get our visual language from the music, and 0:10:22.516 --> 0:10:26.396 that isn't itself intentional because it's we're careful about it 0:10:26.436 --> 0:10:31.276 and extremely thoughtful sot the esthetic world and all the 0:10:31.356 --> 0:10:33.916 details and all the care comes from the music. I 0:10:33.956 --> 0:10:36.796 love hearing people try to describe your music, Like The 0:10:36.876 --> 0:10:39.636 New Yorker recently said that your music they describe it 0:10:39.636 --> 0:10:43.916 as twilight mysticism. Cool, and I'm just curious, like does 0:10:43.956 --> 0:10:48.276 that feel accurate? That feels like somebody was using language 0:10:48.276 --> 0:10:51.436 in a very creative and imaginative way, which is super 0:10:51.476 --> 0:10:57.196 exciting because twilight and light and that thing that the 0:10:57.236 --> 0:11:00.236 world gives to you as a human, Like we live 0:11:00.276 --> 0:11:02.156 in the world and all we have to do is 0:11:02.196 --> 0:11:05.116 look at it to get an infinite amount of inspiration. 0:11:05.276 --> 0:11:08.316 And yeah, I love that. I mean, that person is 0:11:08.916 --> 0:11:12.316 accessing that part of living where they see something and 0:11:12.356 --> 0:11:16.396 it makes them think about something larger. I mean, I 0:11:16.396 --> 0:11:20.316 don't know if anyone who's not moved by twilight is 0:11:20.716 --> 0:11:24.956 essentially insane, because it's it's just it's like, so it's like, 0:11:24.996 --> 0:11:26.876 you know, the world that we see all day long 0:11:26.996 --> 0:11:30.156 just becomes this incredibly beautiful place for a short amount 0:11:30.196 --> 0:11:34.516 of time, and it's just really really wonderful. What were 0:11:34.596 --> 0:11:37.436 some of like the foundational albums for you both, Like 0:11:37.476 --> 0:11:39.356 what were you listening to in high school? Like the 0:11:39.436 --> 0:11:41.916 first album where it's not something that's like playing in 0:11:41.956 --> 0:11:45.556 your parents' car or like an older sibling is listening to, 0:11:45.636 --> 0:11:49.196 it's like your album. Me and my like high school 0:11:49.196 --> 0:11:53.796 crew got really political, which was awesome, and like you know, 0:11:53.796 --> 0:11:56.076 it's like part of our the way we were like 0:11:56.236 --> 0:12:00.676 becoming adults informing our identity. But we got really into 0:12:00.836 --> 0:12:04.676 Bob Marley and just reggae in general, and I learned 0:12:04.996 --> 0:12:08.996 I learned every every baseline. I was a bassist first. 0:12:08.996 --> 0:12:11.836 I learned every baseline to every Bob Marley record at 0:12:11.996 --> 0:12:14.516 age fifteen or sixteen, and it was so huge to 0:12:14.596 --> 0:12:16.516 us and the political side of it, and it was 0:12:16.516 --> 0:12:17.956 so funny when I got to college, and it was 0:12:17.996 --> 0:12:19.996 shocking to me when I found out how a lot 0:12:20.036 --> 0:12:25.356 of people perceived Bob Marley as kind of playful, non 0:12:25.436 --> 0:12:27.596 serious music, because I had had such a like kind 0:12:27.596 --> 0:12:30.676 of like formative political relationship with it and found it 0:12:30.716 --> 0:12:35.196 so crucial to like my identity and various things, and 0:12:36.076 --> 0:12:41.316 found his calls to be so beautiful and worthy and yeah, 0:12:41.316 --> 0:12:44.676 and then just the sonic aspects of reggae and all 0:12:44.676 --> 0:12:47.116 of those Bob Marley records had a massive effect on 0:12:47.636 --> 0:12:49.956 the way I saw music and the way I heard 0:12:49.956 --> 0:12:53.556 it put together, and the warm tones mixed with the 0:12:53.716 --> 0:12:57.596 super serious message felt so powerful to me. Where did 0:12:57.676 --> 0:13:01.556 you go after reggae? Well, yeah, I mean that's just 0:13:01.676 --> 0:13:05.916 one step of things. But I also explored very heavily. 0:13:05.916 --> 0:13:08.076 I'm thinking of ones that where I like learned every 0:13:08.116 --> 0:13:11.716 aspect of the music. I got really really into all 0:13:11.716 --> 0:13:15.636 the Stevie Wanda records from the seventies, the ones that 0:13:15.676 --> 0:13:19.396 he self produced. It's just such a great array of 0:13:19.556 --> 0:13:24.476 musicianship but great songwriting, and it's eclectic, and I mean 0:13:24.556 --> 0:13:27.596 those records are just incredible intervisions talking book songs in 0:13:27.636 --> 0:13:31.116 the key of life fulfilling. This is first finale that 0:13:31.156 --> 0:13:33.556 kind of stuff. And then Victoria, what about you? What 0:13:33.596 --> 0:13:36.876 were some foundational or just early albums that you really 0:13:36.876 --> 0:13:40.036 gravitated towards. You know, it's funny there. I think that 0:13:40.076 --> 0:13:42.676 this might be like one of the things that maybe 0:13:42.716 --> 0:13:45.116 when Alex and I like started making music, we didn't 0:13:45.156 --> 0:13:48.956 realize that we probably just we shared some total overlaps 0:13:48.956 --> 0:13:50.556 of what we were attracted to, because I was going 0:13:50.636 --> 0:13:54.316 to say that, you know, there's your childhood music, but 0:13:54.356 --> 0:13:56.876 then I think for the albums that you fall in 0:13:56.876 --> 0:13:58.916 love with when you're a teenager, really I think are 0:13:59.316 --> 0:14:02.716 some of the ones that profoundly affect you, you know, 0:14:02.756 --> 0:14:05.396 as the beginning of you becoming an adult. So like 0:14:05.516 --> 0:14:10.316 I was obviously into like Nirvana and Whole. I loved Whole. 0:14:10.436 --> 0:14:14.316 I still do too. I like Smashing Pumpkins, Um Siamese 0:14:14.356 --> 0:14:17.916 Siamese Dream is an amazing record. I also fell in love, 0:14:18.236 --> 0:14:20.356 you know, with somebody, your first like fall in love, 0:14:20.556 --> 0:14:23.116 and it was there was like rasta man vibration and 0:14:23.276 --> 0:14:26.356 you know, like just uh, that whole reggae world was 0:14:26.476 --> 0:14:30.396 part of my life too, and you know Rabbi Shankar 0:14:30.676 --> 0:14:32.916 and you know, like that song I Miss You. I 0:14:32.916 --> 0:14:35.236 mean there's so many albums, so yeah, I think that 0:14:35.356 --> 0:14:42.196 there's some there's some sharing of the glowing, warm, romantic, melodic, 0:14:42.596 --> 0:14:45.116 you know, the feelings all in this like kind of 0:14:45.116 --> 0:14:49.556 beautiful alchemy. What did you especially like about Whole About 0:14:49.596 --> 0:14:54.636 Courtney Love, I'm just curious. Um, just it's it's a power. 0:14:54.716 --> 0:14:57.836 It's just a powerful it's a powerful thing like if 0:14:57.876 --> 0:15:01.636 you're a young girl and you're listening to that, you're 0:15:01.676 --> 0:15:04.236 just like this, this woman, you know, this this like 0:15:04.436 --> 0:15:07.436 force of nature. Yeah, it's it's just like once you 0:15:07.516 --> 0:15:09.236 hear it, you're kind you're just not the same, you know, 0:15:09.236 --> 0:15:11.076 And that's there's a lot of artists that are like that. 0:15:11.716 --> 0:15:14.436 You know, Nirvana's like that, and you know, there are 0:15:14.436 --> 0:15:16.396 a lot of people that once you hear hear them, 0:15:16.916 --> 0:15:20.956 you're not the same. Bob Marley yay, you know, um, 0:15:21.116 --> 0:15:24.036 there are a lot of people that are you know, 0:15:24.076 --> 0:15:27.596 they just change you quickly. But yeah, her screaming, her voice, 0:15:27.636 --> 0:15:29.916 it's like there's just a unique quality to it. And 0:15:29.996 --> 0:15:32.436 also the music, the song is really great. Yeah, the 0:15:32.516 --> 0:15:34.956 songwriting is incredible. You know, live Through This is an 0:15:34.956 --> 0:15:38.316 incredible record. People are going to copy that for the 0:15:38.316 --> 0:15:41.436 rest of time, you know, and everything talk about aesthetics, 0:15:41.476 --> 0:15:44.236 I mean that whole thing is just like, yeah, that 0:15:44.436 --> 0:15:49.076 is an incredible force of inspiration. The baby doll, the makeup, 0:15:49.196 --> 0:15:51.156 the you know, and it's coming from punk and post 0:15:51.156 --> 0:15:54.076 punk and all that stuff, which also was a huge 0:15:54.076 --> 0:15:56.556 part of my upbringing. So there was a mixture of 0:15:56.596 --> 0:16:01.436 like the warm, gooey, the velvety layers, the velvet underground, 0:16:01.436 --> 0:16:04.276 and then there's also the reggae and then yeah, it's 0:16:04.316 --> 0:16:06.156 just a whole combo of things. That's that's how my 0:16:06.196 --> 0:16:09.916 brain works, the kind of all combines into one. It's 0:16:09.916 --> 0:16:13.596 all one album. Just kidding. We'll be right back with 0:16:13.636 --> 0:16:16.436 more from Leah Rose and Beach House. After a quick break, 0:16:20.636 --> 0:16:23.156 we're back with more from Beach House and Leah Rose. 0:16:23.756 --> 0:16:26.756 Let's talk a little bit about Victoria, about how you 0:16:27.276 --> 0:16:30.196 have evolved as a singer over the years. How would 0:16:30.196 --> 0:16:33.676 you say that your voice has changed as your career 0:16:33.716 --> 0:16:39.036 has progressed. There's a whole scientific way of talking about voice. 0:16:39.076 --> 0:16:42.676 That's one way of looking at it, and it's very factual, 0:16:42.836 --> 0:16:45.796 you know, like people's voices continue to change until they're 0:16:45.796 --> 0:16:48.916 like mid forties and then obviously past then. But in 0:16:48.996 --> 0:16:52.876 terms of like people who use their voices in specific ways, 0:16:53.356 --> 0:16:57.396 I have always when I start singing or I'm writing 0:16:57.516 --> 0:17:00.356 or all of that, I'm always just going from a 0:17:00.396 --> 0:17:04.436 place of what is comfortable to me. So it's not 0:17:04.676 --> 0:17:09.116 very like super self conscious. But there are definitely things 0:17:09.196 --> 0:17:12.276 that I like to do with my voice and the 0:17:12.316 --> 0:17:14.796 way that it sounds, and I work from just that 0:17:15.116 --> 0:17:17.996 in out world, you know, when I listen to my 0:17:18.076 --> 0:17:21.436 voice over in you know, the past and various Beach 0:17:21.476 --> 0:17:24.596 House albums like there are definitely like a range of 0:17:25.276 --> 0:17:28.196 vocal worlds all over the records, and I just feel 0:17:28.236 --> 0:17:31.676 like I continue to just kind of build on that, 0:17:31.996 --> 0:17:33.796 you know, and go with the float. But I do 0:17:33.996 --> 0:17:37.956 technically have classical training, and I you know, I don't 0:17:37.996 --> 0:17:40.916 lose my voice very often at all. For whatever reason, 0:17:40.996 --> 0:17:43.956 I don't have problems with that, probably just jinx to myself. 0:17:44.716 --> 0:17:48.356 Some singers do a lot of warm ups and you know, 0:17:48.436 --> 0:17:51.076 two hours, and I don't know how I can't do that. 0:17:51.196 --> 0:17:54.156 I'm very much like a shot of tequila, you know, 0:17:54.236 --> 0:17:56.756 and that's that's my warm up. Not to sound like 0:17:57.196 --> 0:18:00.436 I'm such a rocker, but that is a kind of 0:18:00.476 --> 0:18:02.716 my attitude with it too. Who were some of the 0:18:02.796 --> 0:18:06.196 first voices that you were really attracted to or really 0:18:06.236 --> 0:18:10.516 moved by early on in my life. I was attracted 0:18:10.596 --> 0:18:15.236 to Michael Jackson. I was attracted to musicals. I was 0:18:15.236 --> 0:18:19.076 attracted to the official fan of the opera musical, Sarah Brightman. 0:18:20.076 --> 0:18:22.516 You know, obviously everybody has loved Stevie Nicks. At some 0:18:22.596 --> 0:18:26.796 point I loved Chris Bell's voice, you know, in my twenties, 0:18:26.956 --> 0:18:31.276 I've loved Tom Petty's voice. I've loved a lot of 0:18:31.316 --> 0:18:34.276 male voices actually, and I'm you know, of course forgetting 0:18:34.276 --> 0:18:36.396 them now because it's the it's the video store effect 0:18:36.436 --> 0:18:37.996 where you go in and you're like, wait a minute, 0:18:38.116 --> 0:18:41.516 what's my favorite movie? I don't know, was there a 0:18:41.516 --> 0:18:43.756 period of time when you started out where you were 0:18:44.276 --> 0:18:49.076 emulating other people's voice. I think that, like just very subconsciously. 0:18:49.076 --> 0:18:52.716 I think I was probably all the men I've ever 0:18:52.756 --> 0:18:55.836 listened to, like in my life, of any you know, artist, 0:18:56.076 --> 0:19:00.436 was probably like in my own abstract way, like embodying 0:19:00.476 --> 0:19:03.516 all of the male voices that I was either subjected 0:19:03.556 --> 0:19:08.516 to or like bombarded with or really loved. When you 0:19:08.556 --> 0:19:11.916 start doing something, you're kind of just processing all of 0:19:11.956 --> 0:19:15.756 your inspirations all in one kind of like if you okay, 0:19:15.756 --> 0:19:18.036 that's gonna this is a really crazy thing that just 0:19:18.076 --> 0:19:20.716 came into my head. But people who like make pasta, 0:19:20.836 --> 0:19:23.436 you know how like when pasta comes out in all 0:19:23.476 --> 0:19:26.196 of the holes and it's like all of the noodles, 0:19:26.716 --> 0:19:30.756 the desire to like make sound come out of your mouth, 0:19:31.756 --> 0:19:35.236 You're you're making something right, But then the all of 0:19:35.276 --> 0:19:37.956 the things you ever heard come out in all of 0:19:37.956 --> 0:19:41.356 those like strands, and that is your voice. Like your 0:19:41.396 --> 0:19:44.476 voice is like made up out of all of the 0:19:44.556 --> 0:19:48.276 things you've ever loved or been attracted to, like how 0:19:48.276 --> 0:19:50.316 hard you want to be or how soft you want 0:19:50.316 --> 0:19:52.276 to be, or like you want to be like a 0:19:52.316 --> 0:19:54.356 man and a woman. You know, you hear a lot 0:19:54.396 --> 0:19:56.716 of people, you know, even male artists today like that 0:19:56.876 --> 0:19:58.796 kind of like sing and then you kind of can't 0:19:58.836 --> 0:20:00.676 tell if it's a girl or not, you know, and 0:20:00.716 --> 0:20:04.316 that you know that's probably always existed. There are male 0:20:04.396 --> 0:20:06.236 singers who want to sound more like a woman, and 0:20:06.356 --> 0:20:08.876 there are female singers that don't want to sound like 0:20:08.916 --> 0:20:11.316 a and they want to sound more like a man. 0:20:11.436 --> 0:20:15.596 So it's just my descript my description of the pasta 0:20:15.756 --> 0:20:19.396 is is just more like about the shapes of things 0:20:19.436 --> 0:20:22.676 that are invisible. It's a pleasing image. Yeah, it's it's 0:20:22.676 --> 0:20:25.836 the processing of like all that comes before and then 0:20:25.876 --> 0:20:30.996 the transference through something and becoming like multiple things. Was 0:20:31.036 --> 0:20:34.396 there a moment when you knew that you found your voice? 0:20:34.436 --> 0:20:37.036 It seems like a really really hard place to get to, 0:20:37.676 --> 0:20:40.596 But do you remember when you sort of realize like, Okay, 0:20:40.636 --> 0:20:43.596 this is me. I mean I honestly think that, like 0:20:43.636 --> 0:20:47.636 when Alex and I made Saltwater, like the very first song, Like, 0:20:47.676 --> 0:20:51.436 I do feel like the beginning of me and like 0:20:51.836 --> 0:20:55.316 my identity as a singer definitely is in the first album. 0:20:55.716 --> 0:20:58.276 But everybody's albums that come before them, they're younger. It's 0:20:58.276 --> 0:21:01.116 that Mitch Hedberg joke, like what is this is a 0:21:01.116 --> 0:21:03.036 picture of me when I was younger? It's like, yes, 0:21:03.156 --> 0:21:06.556 every picture of you is you when you were younger, 0:21:07.436 --> 0:21:09.596 and so every album is you when you were younger. 0:21:09.916 --> 0:21:12.596 But yeah, I think that it started right at the beginning. 0:21:12.716 --> 0:21:15.716 I feel like there just was the desire and the 0:21:15.956 --> 0:21:18.196 you know, the four track and the you know, the 0:21:18.236 --> 0:21:21.356 crappiness and just the kind of like innocence. Do you 0:21:21.396 --> 0:21:24.076 revisit the old albums ever? I mean, I know you're 0:21:24.076 --> 0:21:26.276 you're playing songs when you're on tour, but do you 0:21:26.276 --> 0:21:28.556 ever sit down with the old albums, listen to them 0:21:28.556 --> 0:21:31.356 and sort of like think about them and how they 0:21:31.396 --> 0:21:34.236 sort of like fit into your evolution as a band. 0:21:35.156 --> 0:21:38.836 That To be very honest, no, we don't sit and 0:21:38.876 --> 0:21:41.556 listen to our albums because we kind of know what 0:21:41.596 --> 0:21:44.676 we did, and so it's like it's it's in there somewhere, 0:21:44.716 --> 0:21:46.676 and you know, they're the things we like and they're 0:21:46.676 --> 0:21:48.436 things we don't like, and we just kind of move on. 0:21:49.436 --> 0:21:53.116 But every once in a while we'll hear our songs somewhere, like, 0:21:53.636 --> 0:21:56.156 you know, years ago we heard a song from the 0:21:56.236 --> 0:21:58.796 very first record and I didn't even you know, people 0:21:58.796 --> 0:22:01.516