By KATE DOHENY

Beach House opened after Dum Dum Girls for Vampire Weekend the day before Easter 2010 in Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md.That was the first time I heard such a sound. I did not fully appreciate Beach House’s awesomeness at that concert, because, naturally, I was focused on seeing “Vampy Weeks” perform.

I recognized that they were a good band, but I had spent the minutes that I was waiting for Ezra Koenig and his prepster friends to come on stage staring at the lead singer of Beach House, Victoria Legrand. Not because I was tranced by her amazing singing abilities, but because of her absurd hair.

Two years later, I looked beyond the unique whatever-ness upon her head and gave another listen to the music of Beach House, simply because I had randomly remembered they existed.

The band’s newest album Bloom (2012) boomed into my ear drums. If I knew music terms that would describe the way the group’s music sounds I would totally insert them into this sentence.

But, since I don’t know fanciness, I will just try to explain the greatness of Beach House in my own peasantry.

This woman’s voice is like that of an angel. Either way, it does not matter because it’s working. The amount of passion in Victoria’s voice is unquestionably inspiring.

Listening to Beach House is also the perfect vacation from those two songs you’ve been listening to on repeat for the past two weeks. The way the instruments hold in unison is like hearing the hollow sounds of a seashell to your ear, or even just sitting on the shore with ears wide open as the waves rush in.

Beach House’s music is the opposite of that whole game you play with chocolate chip cookies. I’m talking about when you are eating a chocolate chip cookie that doesn’t taste good the first bite, but you eat more to find out if it will taste better.

The band’s music is more like a freshly-baked, delicious, homemade chocolate chip cookie that your grandmother just took out of the oven; from the first bite you know this won’t be the only cookie you eat from the blazing hot baking sheet.

To sum it up with a classic phrase that is actually accurate: Beach House’s music evokes emotion.

Now I’ll give you some quick facts about them so you are more knowledgeable when you brag about your new favorite band to your friends.

Beach House formed in 2004 and is from one of the most decent states of the United: Maryland. If the band had to be pushed into a genre other than alternative, they would be thrown under that confusing “Dream Pop” label.

Alongside singer Victoria is talented male guitarist Alex Scally. That is their basic background info, other than the obvious fact that they are really cool.

Visit their musical websites, pages and events on the interweb and listen especially to all those people who appreciate some really great hair. It’s like you can hear she has great hair.

I think you need to stop reading this and start listening to Beach House. Which is what I’ve been doing the entire time I’ve been writing this.