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Beach House & Takako Minekawa and Dustin Wong

Posted on 01.29.16 under Beach House, Dustin Wong, Graham Hill, Skyler Skjelset, Takako Minekawa, Victoria Legrand

At O-Nest, Dogenzaka, Shibuya. A medium-large venue, groups like Blondie have played there.

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Shibuya has been a mess — under construction for a few years now — and it looks like it will be a few more years before it’s completed. Hopefully, within my lifetime…

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Full house at O-Nest.

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Everyone stares at an illuminated board.

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Everyone…

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Skyler Skjelset, who was a founding member of Fleet Foxes and is playing bass on this tour, opened the show. He played multi-textured drones over a simple beat.

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Dustin and Takako played next. New songs comprised of cascading waves of beats, looped guitar riffs, samples and vocals.

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Beach House tours with their own lighting. Cases of it. Mostly back-lighting the band, the effect is more meditative than celebratory. Dream Pop drenched in reverb, it’s mysterious, not self-aggrandizing.

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Takako Minekawa, Dustin Wong, Victoria Legrand

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Graham Hill, Dustin, Alex Scally