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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe title track and intro of Once Twice Melody <\/em>launched the concert with plainsong-like chimes; its hypnotizing instruments progress with Victoria Legrand\u2019s voice. Legrand\u2019s delivery has a similar effect to German artist Nico. Her vocals feel ancient, like she is telling some great prophecy carried by an atmosphere of lush synths and strings. Manipulation of the band\u2019s shadows multiplied the allure, I did not see a single facial feature the whole night. Seeing Legrand raise her shadow of a hand at the peak of a song would cause the crowd to levitate in awe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon the synths of \u201cLazuli\u201d and \u201cThrough Me\u201d would climb up and down on a dream-dimension y-axis. Legrand stands tall and mythical with her curly hair draped in the fog. Alex Scalley played his soothing guitar and James Barone hit his drums with gentle precision. Hexagonal lights twist and turn around through the mist, and I heard someone say \u201clook at the lights on the ceiling.\u201d For a moment, these geometric lights had us inside of the Bloom album cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beach House\u2019s sound is so sensory-oriented that the visuals of this show were crucial. Before the show, The band sent out a memo to every one of their ticket holders: <\/p>\n\n\n\n NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY whatsoever will be allowed. Additionally, any other distracting activities will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This created a tunnel vision effect; I could only see the band and whatever synesthetic spotlight they occupied. Everything else was pitch black, it was impossible not to be hypnotized by that stage. The audience may as well have melted when the gut-wrenching first notes of \u201cSilver Soul\u201d came on. All of the lights turned white; it makes sense because this is a white-feeling song, right? Most Beach House songs have a specific color; they’ve explored this with the indulgent red sink-hole that is their 2015 album, Depression Cherry<\/em>. The background lights matched each song and its sonic hue. A Starry Night-esque lilac background twinkled for the spellbinding \u201cMyth.\u201d A machine gun of red lights fired around with the drum machines of \u201cPink Funeral.\u201d At the chorus, the aforementioned hexagonal lights turn pink and pan across the room in slow-motion as Legrand so gracefully pleads, \u201cdon’t let me go.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m a woman of few words\u201d Legrand says to a crowd of hypnotized happy neanderthals. I can look around and see the simple thought behind many faces: Music make me feel good.<\/em> Sure, we were all swaying parallel to the repetitive soundwaves of \u201cLemon Glow,\u201d but to look around was to see a collective submerged state. Legrand looks down at her audience – or loyal followers – \u201cThis place feels like a spaceship, where should we go.\u201d We follow and cheer, drooling. Beach House brain rot has never felt so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our spaceship traveled through the Asgardian bliss of \u201cPPP,\u201d and soon, zero-gravity tears would float around during “Space Song”. As we continued somewhere between two galaxies, a Death Star shot out its dreamy rays from above. A disco ball the diameter of Chewbacca\u2019s left nut is the first off-stage light I\u2019ve seen in this theater. Once the show exited orbit, the crowd did not stop cheering until the band came back on for an encore with “Over and Over.” The audience exited the building like a stream of satisfied water molecules as Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” played over the speakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Guided meditation wouldn’t make me feel as serene as I did after the Beach House show. Is it dramatic to say I feel baptized? 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