I'll be honest. While I have been hearing hype about Best Coast for a long time now, all of the little snippets of them I was hearing/reading weren't catching my interest. Eventually I decided to delve a little deeper into their music catalog and I came across the song "Boyfriend". It opened my eyes a little more and led me to start appreciating their sound. I decided to purchase their latest work "Crazy For You" and I was not disappointed.
The album opens with the previously mentioned, and my personal favorite song by Best Coast - "Boyfriend". Bethany Cosentino's voice soars and dives, in one of the hook(-iest) vocals I have ever heard.
Lyrically "Crazy For You" isn't challenging. The songs all land somewhere between missing you, being lazy, and smoking weed. But as an album to wrap up your summer, you couldn't ask for anything better right? I usually am not too keen on a girl singer with a rock format but something about Bethany's voice and Bobb Bruno's riffs leave you feeling like rock was meant to be this way.
In a few places some of the songs start to blend together, but considering that only 1 song on the entire album breaks the 3:00 minute mark (and it does so by just 2 seconds), you can treat those songs as if they were meant to be one. It's a perfect summer album, the rhythms and melodies are carefree, while the lyrics deliver a odd mixture of seriousness and playfulness. A perfect example being: /I lost my job/I miss my mom/I wish my cat could talk./Every time you leave this house/Everything falls apart./ In the end, "Crazy For You" is definitely worth the money and Best Coast is definitely worthy of the hype.
- Best Coast - "Crazy For You" released July 27th, 2010 via Mexican Summer.
-Ayar'd - (October 16th, 2010)
