New Beach House song Sparks from upcoming album Depression Cherry

Beach House have a new album called Depression Cherry coming out August 28. They've let us hear a tune from it called "Sparks".

There are no immediate hooks to draw you into the new tune. The song is all about the atmosphere; the textures of the guitars and the vocals. It's all smooth tasting elegance. Delicious.

Beach House at Lee's Palace

Baltimore's Beach House started their second show of a two-night stand at Toronto's Lee's Palace with just the two core band members, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, in moody lighting. They stated that they'd been together as a band for 9 years and were going to play songs from across their career. Then the drummer joined them on stage. A few songs later the 2 multi instrumentalists who also are the two opening acts joined them on stage to fill out the sound. Legrand was in a flirtatious mood, making googly eyes at some of the better looking girls and boys in attendance.

I like it when bands bring their own lighting to Lee's Palace. It definitely kicks things up a notch or two in the visual excitement department. I like the extra bombast that Beach House brought to some of their tunes. It brings an extra live energy that comes across very well.

Here are some tunes:

"Myth"

"Wishes"

"New Year"

"Wild"

"Lazuli"

"Gila"

"Master of None"

"Irene"

"10 Mile Stereo"

"Zebra"

"Other People"

"Silver Soul"

Missed it by that much... Myth by Beach House

Here's one I certainly missed last year. It's called "Myth" and it's from Beach House's album Bloom. It's on lots of "best of" lists and it is indeed a cool tune.

If you missed it, too, it's time to check it out.

And while I'm at it, here are some more from Bloom.

"Wild"

"Lazuli"

"New Year"