{"product_id":"b-sides-and-rarities","title":"B-Sides and Rarities","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis compilation contains every song Beach\rHouse – aka Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand – has made that does not exist on\rone of their albums. The band explains:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we announced that we were releasing a B-sides\rand rarities album, someone on Twitter asked, “B-sides record? Why would Beach\rHouse put out a B-sides record? Their A-sides are like B-sides.” This random\rperson has a point. Our goal has never been to make music that is explicitly\rcommercial. Over the years, as we have worked on our 6 LPs, it wasn’t the\r“best\" or most catchy songs that made the records, just the ones that fit\rtogether to make a cohesive work. Accordingly, our B-sides are not songs that\rwe didn’t like as much, just ones that didn’t have a place on the records we\rwere making. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe oldest song is “Rain in Numbers” and was\rrecorded in 2005, during the summer when we formed the band. We\rdidn’t have a piano, so we asked our friend if we could use his, which was\rpretty out of tune. We used the mic that was on the four-track machine to\rrecord the piano and vocals. It was originally the secret song on our\rself-titled debut. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe next couple of songs are from late 2008.\rWe were so excited about “Used to Be” that we quickly recorded it and put it on\ra 7”  for our fall tour with the Baltimore Round Robin. The same session\rbegat our cover of Queen’s “Play the Game” for a charity compilation benefiting\rAIDS research; we will continue to donate all profits from the song to that\rcharity. As fans of Queen, we thought it would be fun and ridiculous to try to\radapt their high-powered pop song into our realm. These songs were recorded at\rthe same studio where we made \u003ci\u003eDevotion\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThere are a bunch of songs written and\rrecorded in the 2009-2010 window. “Baby” was written and recorded in October\r2009 with our friend Jason Quever. “10 Mile Stereo” was recorded during\rthe \u003ci\u003eTeen Dream\u003c\/i\u003e session in July 2009. Since\rwe used tape, we often slowed the tape way down to create\reffects while recording, which led to “10 Mile Stereo (Cough Syrup Remix).”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“White Moon” and “The Arrangement” were both\rsongs that we didn’t believe fit on \u003ci\u003eTeen\rDream\u003c\/i\u003e. “White\rMoon” originally appeared on our iTunes live session. Since that was recorded\rand mixed very hastily, we have remixed it to better match our current\raesthetics. We have also remixed and included the version of “Norway\" we\rdid at that same session. We wrote and recorded “I Do Not Care for the Winter\rSun” during a break between tours and released it on the internet for free,\runmastered. Well, it’s finally been mastered…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“Wherever You Go” is another song from that\rera.  We always loved this song but thought it sounded too much like\rour old music. We didn’t finish it until 2011 during the \u003ci\u003eBloom\u003c\/i\u003e recording session. It\rappeared originally as a secret song on \u003ci\u003eBloom\u003c\/i\u003e. “Equal\rMind” was also recorded during the \u003ci\u003eBloom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cspan\u003esession,\rbut we left it off the record after realizing it had the exact same tempo as\r“Other People.” “Saturn Song” is built on a piano\rloop we wrote while recording\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ci\u003eBloom\u003c\/i\u003e,\rand contains sounds recorded in deep space. It originally appeared on a\rcompilation of songs incorporating space sounds that was released in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFinally, there are two previously unreleased\rsongs from the \u003ci\u003eDepression\rCherry\/Thank Your Lucky Stars\u003c\/i\u003e sessions. They are called\r“Chariot” and “Baseball Diamond.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beach House","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":56177366434084,"sku":"nve1788117211427","price":17.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56177366466852,"sku":"gjo1788117211428","price":8.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital","offer_id":56177366499620,"sku":"uyv1788117211429","price":7.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cassette","offer_id":56177366532388,"sku":"ecp1788117211430","price":6.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1263\/9268\/files\/b-sides-and-rarities_1.jpg?v=1788117216","url":"https:\/\/gowearus.shop\/products\/b-sides-and-rarities","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}