beach house

Beach House stopped by KCRW in L.A. this morning. Photos by David. Listen to their sublime performance in its entirety here:

Here are our favorite records / songs / videos from a very strong first half of 2012, complete with links to listen to the albums in their entirety, in most cases. We probably don't have to ask you to leave your choices in the comments, but as always, we enjoy seeing them...

For the 7 of you that have managed to abstain from listening to the leak, Beach House's excellent new album Bloom is now streaming in full over at NPR. Listen here. mp3:

Our friends at Sub Pop have hooked us up with one of the few copies of Beach House's extremely limited blue Lazuli Record Store Day 7" that wasn't immediately grabbed up by eBay scalpers, along with a copy of the group's beautiful new album Bloom on CD...

Beach House has unveiled another track from their beautiful new record Bloom. "Lazuli" is also available in physical form this weekend as the a-side on the band's Record Store Day 7" single, limited to 2400 copies on blue vinyl, out Saturday at your local independent record store:

Sub Pop has confirmed that Bloom will be out on 2xLP on May 15. The band's Alex Scally says the album is like "a huge crystal, spinning in a cave with Star Wars figurines." Full tracklist after the jump... mp3:

mp3: "Myth" is the first song to surface from Beach House's BLOOM, out in May on Sub Pop.

Absolutely gorgeous. Taken from Air's Le Voyage Dans La Lune, out February 2012. Listen after the jump...