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Our single of the week (8th January 2010)
...according to our Brett on Fri 08 Jan, 2010.
Best Coast is Bethany Cosentino who presumably left Pocahaunted in vicarious shame after her partner's great Penn & Teller banana debacle. Now she does sloppy lo-fi doo wop love songs in a wonky Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts/Girls At Dawn kinda style. It's a pretty big style just now in case you haven't noticed, but she manages to stick out from the crowd in fine style with a tasty and original guitar sound that betrays her roots in such a textural, effects laden project as Pocahaunted. Lyrically, she says 'baby' quite a lot and seems to be drifting around yearning and longing kind of territory. That might sound like a narrow spectrum but to me it's surely the richest of pop songwriting sources to mine and the sweet spot for any style of this kind. I think it's fair to say we're all well keen on 'Make You Mine', despite the fact it's got a Beach Boys cover on it and you're potentially messing with people's feelings if you start on that shit. Well pulled off indeed!Former POCAHAUNTED member BETHANY COSENTINO (aka BEST COAST) embodies California. Her songs are effortlessly ramshackle, layers of fuzzed guitar and a voice with enough heft and soul that it brings to mind 1950s girl soul groups or even a female-centric Beach Boys. There’s also a sense of permanent longing, an inescapable melancholy that can only come from living near the beach, perpetually sunny but a little sad too. Her four-song “Make you Mine” 7-inch was recorded with longtime friend BOBB BRUNO, and is packed with enough hooks and gorgeous melodies to fill an entire album. It is Group Tightener’s first release.
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