10 Best Rock Duos Of All Time

10. Beach House

The name may conjure up images of sunkissed shores, umbrellas and inflatables, but the Baltimore duo can provide soundtracks to dark nights of the soul just as easily as they can something pristine and sweet. For 15 years they’ve been one of the foremost acts in modern dream pop and shoegaze, providing great care, emotion, and detail to genres that can find themselves oversaturated.

Their first couple of albums picked up significant praise, but their third, Teen Dream, proved a breakthrough and remains among their best. Opener "Zebra" still takes your breath away with the sweeping arpeggios and Victoria Legrand’s incredible vocals, somehow distant but warm. All the way through to heartbreaking closer “Take Care”, this record doesn’t put a foot wrong.

They’re showing no signs of slowing down; the hugely popular act has made the smart choice to evolve their sound rather than making any rash changes, but they grow every album. Their most recent, the appropriately titled 7, could be the best of the lot, though we’re surely due a new release sooner rather than later.