I caught Beach House for the first time at the ACL Festival this year, and all I can say about that is that the sunlight isn't exactly kind to these guys. The performance that day was anticlimactic, a little awkward, and all in all just sort of disappointing. Beach House's hyperatmospheric take on surf music doesn't belong outdoors. Hell, it barely belongs outside of your headphones, so if you put them on a stage in front of a couple thousand people in the middle of a field, in the middle of the day, IN TEXAS...it's proably not going to work out to well. And it didn't. Needless to say, it left me with some feelings of  trepidation. Fact is, some bands just don't do it live. It happens, and it's OK. Making a record and then PERFORMING that record are two entirely different skill sets and while I love Teen Dream the  record, if Beach House just couldn't pull it together in a live setting then that was how it was going to be.

Luckily, when in the correct setting,  they not only pull it together...they knock it out of the f@#@ing park.