Album now streaming at http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/features/best_coast and http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/...coast-crazy-you if you are a chin-stroking liberal.

Whisper it, album of the summer.

i dont have time for this lesbian bullshit

That's the wrong answer. Thanks for playing anyway.

Next caller.

uh, lesbian bullshit. it's "boyfriend" not "boi-friend."

but yeah, really good album. i want to is my favorite thus far. hearing, much to my surprise, a good amount of pink flag on this album.

yeah this is excellent. definitely purchase worthy

yep. great album

I listened to this four times yesterday. Love it. Love her. I want to be her boyfriend.

I like cats so I will be giving this a listen!

Brutal name though.

Love Bethany Consentino, and I'm really looking forward to this release. I put this compilation together of some stuff Best Coast put out last year. Here's what it's from:

Best Coast - Collected 2009

From Where the Boys Are EP


01. Moody
02. Space Baby
03. Angsty
04. Boy
05. Gloomy

Two Tracks recorded live in a bathroom (you can find the videos on Youtube)

06. Bratty B
07. The Sun Was High

The "Black Iris" 7"

08. This is Real
09. When I'm With You

"Make You Mine" 7"

10. In My Room
11. Over the Ocean
12. Make You Mine
13. Feeling Love

"Art Fag" 7"

14. The Sun Was High (So Was I)
15. So Gone
16. That's the Way Boys Are

The whole thing clocks in under 41 minutes, and it all pretty much qualifies as noisy, pop-bliss.

Download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BKDNRXHY

Her cat is called Snacks and it has its own Tumblr. http://snacksthecat.tumblr.com/

Its pretty hard not to like this record. A fine collection of pop songs.

Really liked the single they released a few months ago. Will have to check out any new stuff asap.

i can't be the only one who thinks this sounds like a way more upbeat/happy/surf Neko Case at times?

yeah, that single is killer; reminds me of a fem-fronted girls.

haven't listened to the album yet - stole it lovingly a few weeks back.

Snacks leads an amazing life. I think I'll give this album a chance based on how cool that cat is.

this exact thought crossed my mind as well. similar vocal range, but somehow the inflection doesn't sound like an imitation of neko's porno-pop stuff.

Good, because I hate her voice.

There's more of a monotonous slacker quality to the Best Coast chick's voice than Neko's. Similar to the kind of vocals that you might hear on the Vivian Girls albums. Has the charm of a normal every day female trying her hand at carrying a tune. Different kind of thing from Neko Case's more grating than great oversung bleeting.

I'll probably listen to this soon. "When I'm With You" is on it and that's one of the best songs ever!

I know her sister, too. She's a real sweetie.

true, but this girl has a way stronger voice and sense of singing in key than Vivian Girls

and i guess i should have clarified, it reminds me of older Neko more than her last 3-4 albums obviously

Sweet, I haven't been able to find that Where the Boys Are EP.

I love "Sun Was High (So Was I)", "When I'm with You", and "Up All Night". Been looking forward to this album.

I plan to purchase it and the new Wavves at about the same time.

Where The Boys Are was my introduction to Best Coast last summer. Didn't do shit for me. She's gotten way better.

"when i'm with you" is ok but "young folks" isn't...ya, get your head checked

this shit sucks

edit

if i knew the people in the band i might like it, but i don't, it's shit, hipster bullshit, terrible shit, fuck it's bad

Was that the first Best Coast release? Because I thought it was the one with "Sun Was High". And that's still my favorite, btw.

I hope that she is improving, but to me it seems more like she's inconsistent. Not terribly so, though, as even her worst - of what I've heard - isn't bad.

pop nuggets my ass

Is there a running contest on this board for who can be the worst troll?

not trolling

Nah, it's not on there. Where The Boys Are is just some fuzzy half-written bullshit.

Does the world really need another "lo-fi" California worship album, sung by some young privileged white chick? Sorry, but I find it really difficult to give two shits about this tripe.

It does if the songs are good.

She earned the hype by putting out some good songs.

exactly

also, the songs suck








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sorry for coming in this thread, should have stayed out, keep listening to the music

how is this lo-fi? do you have a poor rip?

lo fi, hipster, indie, same shit

uh, sure it is.

You must be joking.

i'm not joking... but i've not heard anything prior to the full length. were the singles lo-fi?
the proper album is not exactly lo-fi (i have a CD copy, can't speak for leaks/streams)

i worked in a studio for 3 years... it's not the most full production ever, but the album actually has pretty good dynamic range and instrument separation to be considered truly 'lo-fi' in my book. it's not like this sounds like an old GBV or Mountain Goats record.

edit: now THIS song of hers is def lo-fi:



vs.

nu-lofi

nu-fi

Whatever, thats not really the point. The songs are average bedroom pop. No one will remember this chick come winter. I wouldnt hate it if someone threw it on as background at a BBQ, but thats not exactly the highest compliment.

no, that was the only point i was arguing actually, but i'm over it

i'm fine that you don't dig it, but it's not like it's some hugely polarizing album.

trust me, i heard a lot of hype about the record prior to checking it out the other day and was very skeptical myself.
the melodies on almost every track get stuck in my head for hours. will i care about it after summer 2010? who knows, but for right now i'm liking it a lot.

hell, even that newest Wavves album is a HUGE improvement on his last record (which had 1 good song). but i like this way more than the new Wavves.

Sounds like someone mixed Girls with My Maudlin Career.........................................

It's a shame the album's original title didn't make the cut: Sounding Out Vowels with Reverb.

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itt we fight the real enemy

capitalism?

Indie girls from California.

well done...

i like this album much more than the ep's i have...all the stuff i have is so fuzzed out that it all sounds the same...the album though i like cause it retains the garage feel but is much more clear sounding

Good album.

Hardly lo-fi or even classifiable as "bedroom pop." As Solace and I both pointed out earlier, she has indeed made music that sounds like she crapped it out into a tape recorder. Crazy For You is absolutely not an example of said music. This shit has dope backing vox, lovely 12 string lines, well placed reverb, and many hooks. Some commendably competent pop songwriting here, IMO.

Uh, thats totally the point if you wanna point to something being lo-fi.

Listened to this a bunch more times and really like it. When The Sun Don't Shine is prob my favorite track at the moment.

Correct.

There's been a conscious movement in Bethany's sound away from the Vivian Girls-type scuzzy guitar stuff towards a cleaner, fuller sound more reminiscent of, say, She & Him, Camera Obscura and as mentioned up thread, Neko Case fronting Girls, with the newer singles ("Our Deal", "Boyfriend"), and now this album as a whole.

however, camera obscura write good/great melodies that transcend the kind of shit any joe with a guitar could come up with in half an hour by singing randomly into the air

forget it, i just hate her fucking voice. scum