"Consistency" is the easiest word to grab from the shelf when writing about Beach House , the Baltimore duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. The group, now entering its twelfth year, serves up a reliable mix of drums like a child's toy, Scally's electric-slide guitar always scritching and wiggling, often biding its time before leaping into Legrand's plush, synth foliage with a precisely drunken melody, or dancing on a branch above. Above, below and throughout it all, Legrand's voice, exhaling from the other side of a mirror.
And what's wrong with being reliable? If it means spending a long time mining a sound that might as well be your own genre, striking diamond and root in the 65-plus songs you've sent back up to the surface, then we don't mind the wait.
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