Alex Scally
American musical artist (born 1982)
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Alex Kristian Scally[1] (born July 15, 1982)[2] is an American multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is known as the co-writer, guitarist and backing vocalist of the dream pop band Beach House, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums.
- Vocals
- guitar
- keyboards
- bass
- drum machine
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| Born | July 15, 1982 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
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| Member of | Beach House |
Early life
Scally was born July 15, 1982[2] in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was raised.[3] He is of Irish Catholic heritage.[4] He graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 2000, and from Oberlin College in 2004, where he studied geology and ran NCAA Division III cross-country.[5] Upon graduation, he returned to Baltimore to work as a carpenter alongside his father.[6][7]
Career
In 2004, Scally met Victoria Legrand in Baltimore through one of her friends; after meeting each other, Scally also joined her other band at the time, Daggerhearts.[8] The band would end up disbanding in 2005, due to "dysfunctionality",[9] so the two had decided to start another band, basing it in Baltimore as it was "a place where people can make music intensely, because you don't have to make much [money] to live [there]."[10] After numerous hangouts and first writing sessions, both decided to name their band Beach House, which was named after their written song "House on the Hill".[11] Recalling the formation of the band, Scally said: "We were both just kind of knocking around Baltimore right in our early 20s, and met doing a different musical project, and then [Beach House] kind of grew out of it."[12]
Regarding Beach House's early shows, Scally noted: "I'm really glad nobody came to our shows at the start, because we had no idea what we were doing."[13] Since their formation, Beach House has released eight studio albums as part of their discography: Beach House (2006), Devotion (2008), Teen Dream (2010), Bloom (2012), Depression Cherry (2015), Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015), 7 (2018), and their most recent full-length release, Once Twice Melody (2022).[14] In 2013, the band had also formed a temporary supergroup, Gene Clark No Other Band, that toured only throughout 2013 and 2014.[15][16] They have also provided soundtracking for other media, including the short films This Must Be the Only Fantasy (2013) and Marin's Dreams (2021).[17][18]
