Best Coast

whenever I hear them it only makes me wish that amy linton or linton was not retired or designing houses or whatever.

I think the band's alright but reading this makes me realize I pretty much have the exact same thought every time I give them a listen.

This is streaming at NPR

thanks

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what the hell, this is like a gimme for whinehate™

wasn't into the first single, maybe I'll check out the second if they release a video. liked their first few 7" a lot.

Can we talk about this record? All my worst fears are confirmed. No pot, cats or ooooooh.

i really dislike the sound, it's bizarrely muffled and tubby with harsh resonances all at the same time

makes it difficult to focus on the not-bad songs, despite their cat-free qualities

I actually kind of like this new one, I was subjected to it while browsing at a bookstore. Her lyrics are still awful and rhymes painfully obvious, but I think Brion's production kind of fits it. I don't love it or anything, but it wasn't as terrible as everyone is trying to claim.

is this the record that will finally let everyone know how terrible jon brion is?

i mean the songs are no great shakes but my god

no no no it's terrible xp

didn't realise it was a brion thing, i think his ego might have taken over his ears

i don't really have deep evidence to back this up but everything i've ever knowingly heard that he's been involved with has sounded really, really bad

dude has more vintage wank equipment than vincent gallo and this is the sound he gets? he should be drawn and quartered

haha

posts very much in character /\/\/\\/\

Almost afraid to stick my head over the trench here but Bachelor No. 1 was great and that was a Brion joint i think.

bachelor no. 1 is......ok and not because of him

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The production isn't helping her at all. Plus She has a tendency to draw out the last syllable of every line which makes the banality of her rhymes even more glaring.

yeah i wanna withdraw whatever "maybe it'll be good! jon brion isn't so bad is he?" remarks i made earlier itt. she should do super early-eps fuzzy stuff or should go all out & do the full band fleetwood mac thing that some of these songs want. it sounds so clean and terrible, with its little jaunty indie movie drumming.

some of the songs are okay though.

I was going to pick it up earlier this week, but the shop had the new Sinead on LP so I grabbed that instead, trusting my gut vs my hipster elbow..anyway I think I can safely say I've already clocked more hours with "How About I Be Me (And You Be You)" then I have clocked with any album with the words Coast, Best, Bells or Broken in it...funny thing about Sinead is she can still write a smoking tune despite being obviously mad as shit...I know, this is not a Sinead Mad as Shit or Still Writing Bangers thread, but it is all I got....
NP: Dr Dee

im into this 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujf_aZmOO-U

yeah that's probably the best track

i think this one is pretty fab (previous distorto version of same song notwithstanding):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONFhWHkp6lk

http://instagram.com/p/V8SxgZMcBX/

:3

I don't know why
the sun's in the sky
the rain, it falls down
down onto the ground

goodbye cruel world

opening track on the new EP is ace imo. mind you i liked a few tracks on the last album just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKm0Ve56E8

so ready

http://pitchfork.com/news/58133-best-coast-announce-new-album-california-nights/

yeah me too, should be fun.

this album fucking rules

I remember overrating the last album at the time so there's a chance that might happen with this, and I am a philistine who prefers studio gloss to lo-fi in the majority of cases, but anything that reminds me simultaneously of Palmdale and Tanya Donelly's _Lovesongs for Underdogs_ (same producer) will always fucking rule

feels underwhelming to me but I shd prob get stoned and listen to it w/ my cat before passing judgment

I mean I also wish I had a talking cat

the production on the songs i've heard is really just right, lovesongs for the underdogs is a great analog. don't know if the songs are there

I've been putting off listening to this new one based on the last one being a bit disappointing but if it sounds like Lovesongs For Underdogs I'm sold already.

(for references that producer is wally gagel, also notable for not being jon brion)

I really like this album.

Like many others I loved the debut but really didn't like the second album at all. I've only heard the title track so far which I thought was great. Looking forward to giving the album a go.

i'd argue that this is the strongest collection of songwriting they've put out to date, especially compared to the last record

lol "songwriting"

also if this is the kind of music you want to listen to when you "get stoned" I think you may need a new dealer

J.D.: Harshing mellows and killing buzzes in 2015

I loved the debut so much. I hated polished follow-up even more. The middle ground EP was a nice rebound.

Where does this fall? Anything even vaguely "mature" is a death knell for this band. She should stay in bed and smoke pot with her cats all day.

I have to agree with myself from 2012...
Anticipation for this record is bringing out my inner Mike Love. I don't want them to fuck with the formula. There better be plenty of cat and weed references and at least 8 combined minutes of OOOOOOOOO.

this falls somewhere around this year's colleen green record (which this also reminds me of)

High praise to compare her to Colleen Green. That's one of my favorites of the year.

And Colleen Green will never stop smoking weed.

I was jamming California Nights while driving around L.A. the other evening. It's really, really good. And super slept on. The thread about Belly reminded of this, bc katherine up yonder compared it to Tanya Donelly, which got me to listen to her solo work.

I was really into the first album for a while, or at least some tracks on it. Never listened to anything else, maybe I should take another look.

https://www.stereogum.com/2245286/bethany-cosentino-is-so-disappointed-with-her-solo-album-launch/news/

That's rough, but at least her ego is in good shape.