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| Pastemagazine |
 Best Coast’s Bethany Cosantino digs the simple pleasures: California summers, her cat, Snacks, and love. She really digs love. That penchant for simplicity bounces all over Best Coast’s debut, Crazy For You. After a string of sunny but sludgy EPs, Crazy features 13 tracks in 30 minutes. It’s the tightest, brightest music Cosantino and sole bandmate Bobb Bruno have pumped out yet. These tunes approach love and longing like a teenage diary entry (“I wish he was my boyfriend / I’d love him to the very end” pines Cosantino in “Boyfriend”), matching ’60’s girl group melodies with fuzzed-out guitars. There’s little variety here, but like The Supremes, the straight-ahead formula works: Sing about love, and make each chorus stick. And they do. From the slow dance R&B of “Our Deal” to the Go-Go’s-esque romp “Each and Every Day,” Crazy is the soundtrack of being young, in love and in the sun....full text |
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| Elbo |
| Face it, buzz bands come and go, lost in the waves like loose sandals or expensive sunglasses. Every year there's a whole gallery of 'em. Trios and quartets that all seem promising simply because the unholy "word" says so. But, as we all know, this just isn't true. Most of the time they amount to nothing; just some writer's flashy text and backlogged online chatter. Best case scenario: An act issues a hot single, followed by months of sold-out shows, and naturally... the debut album. This is where the road splits, the "real" journey begins, Robert Frost references, yada, yada...full text |
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| Rawkblog |
Funny that two of 2010′s most notable female-fronted releases, Joanna Newsom’s Have One On Me and Best Coast’s Crazy For You, are all about guys. Newsom’s collection spends three discs and two hours on Serious Poetry and image-laden empowerment; Crazy For You is 30 minutes of BlackBerry-typed middle-school Tumblr posts. Newsom’s album is considered, nuanced, elegant; Best Coast’s is fast and loud.
But I have to give Crazy For You credit: the band was so sloppy and amateurish at SXSW that I skipped half the set and couldn’t be bothered to blog about them. The album is a different beast entirely. It sounds professional, even skillful, in the hands of producer Lewis Pesacov (Fool’s Gold, Foreign Born). It’s largely in the vein of the recent round-up of ’60s-via-’90s jangled-up girl-group revivalism, but when the choruses hit on tracks like “Boyfriend” or “I Want To,” the guitars bite with serious grunge-era teeth and the harmonies — a surreal blend of the Supremes and My Bloody Valentine — deserve an album of their own.
There’s been a lot of talk about the lyrics, and yeah, they mostly suck: they’re not as aggravating as, say, Wavves’ numbskull self-hatred, but in many ways the record plays out as a Mel Gibson fantasy: a girl wholly enveloped in feelings of misogynist worthlessness, wishing her cat could talk and pining for some certainly awful guy (life imitates art: Beth’s dating Wavves.). The songs are too straight-ahead to demand Newsom-level lyrical intricacy, but Best Coast’s antecedents — PJ Harvey, Hole, Nirvana — all managed to take their despair beyond See Spot Run. Given Best Coast’s Twitter pop hatred, I can’t imagine Beth’s a Taylor Swift fan, but she’d do well to learn from Fearless‘ sincere, capable relationship narratives. (Also, she should date a Jonas brother next.)...full text |
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