If you’ve ever spent more than five minutes flipping your way around TikTok in the last few years, it’s highly likely you're familiar with the haunting Space Song by Beach House.
Released over ten years ago as part of the Baltimore dream pop-duo’s fifth album, Depression Cherry, this highly emotive piece of music has become modern cultural currency. Typically used as the audio accompaniment to a range of memes and videos that mirror the song's underlying pain.
Further exposure to Space Song came with placement in the Netflix television series Wednesday. With it, those youngsters who missed out on the song’s initial moment in the sun were suddenly drawn towards a new favourite band, The vividly ethereal Beach House, who had an impressive canon of work just waiting for this newfound audience to wallow within.
As of time of writing, Space Song remains by far their biggest song, and has racked up over 1.5 million streams on Spotify alone.
“It’s like this comet that’s doing its own thing, that’s super fun and ridiculous,” said Beach House’s central creative, Victoria Legrand in an interview with Pitchfork.“It’s also beyond our ability to control or understand, and that is relaxing to me. I am definitely a child of chaos, and something that calms me is understanding that there’s beauty in chaos, but you have to let go.”
