Beach House announces SF concert in special art 'installation' show

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After a busy 2015 executing the release of two phenomenal albums, "Depression Cherry" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars," Baltimore band Beach House has announced an exclusive 13-city addition to their already extensive tour in which they will play only "galleries, art spaces, community centers, and various other alternative venues."

Beach House is known for their lush, dreamlike compositions, and are lauded for their ability to conjure rich, evocative soundscapes — most recently with last year's emotion-dwelling hit, "Depression Cherry."

The special dates will be peppered into their existing tour schedule, and will be much smaller than conventional concerts — as they write on their site announcement, the design of the performance space requires a maximum audience size of 200. They will visit San Francisco on April 26.

The duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally will play carefully selected songs from "Thank Your Lucky Stars," "Devotion," and their self-titled album ("songs we can play as a two piece"), but as they add, it is "by no means a 'stripped down' or intentionally intimate performance."

As of yet, the venue hasn't been revealed, but we can surmise that there likely won't be a stage. The audience will be "expected to sit on the floor" (and bring a pillow), and experience the enveloping of sound as the band plays.

"It has always been difficult to carry the initial moments of creativity that inspire our music through the process of making and releasing a record. There are many chances along the way for the feeling to get lost," they write on the concept description. "This installation performance is an attempt to elicit this pure, embryonic state of mind for ourselves and our audience."

Tickets go on sale April 7 at 11 a.m.