Best Coast - Crazy for You
People really ought to start bands with their old babysitters more often. We loved the smutty lo-fi charm of NYC’s Moldy Peaches (Kimya was Adam’s ’sitter), and now there’s Best Coast, aka Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno. Although she’s still only 23, Consentino is already an old hand at this music lark – at just 15 she was turning down major label offers and some years later her zonked-out reverb outfit Pocahaunted garnered enough buzz to support Sonic Youth. But it’s only as Best Coast that she has hit on something genuinely thrilling.
Transplanted to a New York college and missing the sea and surf, she consoled herself with the Beach Boys and 60s girl groups. Consentino then dropped out and hooked up with Bruno, throwing those sunny influences in the pot with a pinch of grungy, fuzz-pop, and thus Best Coast was born. At the album’s pinnacle is Our Deal, sumptuous with harmony swells and bearing lyrics potent with what can never be communicated. Play it till the grooves wear down.
Kim Taylor Bennett
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