In Photos: Beach House + Lower Dens @ Vicar Street, Dublin (22.11.10)

Some ten months on from its release, Beach House’s Teen Dream is turning out to be many people’s record of the year. Monday night’s Vicar Street show gave further evidence of just why, as the Baltimore band lit up the latest installment in Foggy Notions’ Harmonic Series. Victoria Legrand’s strength as a vocalist has never been in doubt, but both she and guitarist Alex Scally have markedly upped their game in terms of stage presence since Ragged Words first caught them live a few years back. Tonight they and their band simply owned the room, the twinkling stage lighting perfectly complimenting their woozy, seductive happy/sad songs.

Support came from fellow Marylanders Lower Dens, whose recent Twin-Hand Movement LP has garnered plenty of critical praise. Jana Hunter is something of an enigmatic frontwoman – intense and aloof in equal measure – and the band’s brooding, atmospheric alt-rock was warmly received. No doubt we can look forward to seeing them again some time next year.

But it was Beach House who well and truly shone in front of a sell-out audience. Mark Earley was on hand to shoot some photos of the headliners from the front row, while Sean Conroy also took some snaps of Lower Dens for us. To load a slideshow of their shots, just click on any of the thumbnails below.

(With thanks to Leah at Urchin PR and all at Foggy Notions)