Blog: Chromewaves

Red Hot There's a lot of stock descriptors that are used to describe Beach House : dreamy, hazy, dreamy, gauzy, dreamy, etc. There aren't, however, a lot of allusions to grandiose, arena-sized classic rock. So that the band would opt to cover as grandiose, arena-sized and classic rock a band as Queen is an interesting choice. Wisely, however, they didn't go for the bigger end of the band's catalog, but instead the sort-of title track from 19802s The Game , which offers some stately and mid-tempo common [...]

• Beach House - Play The Game (Queen cover)