Crazy for You
Album | Best Coast
Lo-fi indie pop with heart.
Around 2008, a flurry of bands heavily influenced by vintage late '80s UK indie singles started pouring out of Brooklyn. Also around that time, a young Southern California transplant named Bethany Cosentino decided to leave New York and head back home. Settled back in the land of freeways with her cat/band mascot Snacks and a musical partner named Bob Bruno, Cosentino fused the neo-C86 energy (and distortion pedals) of Vivian Girls or Crystal Stilts with classic West Coast pop influences circa 1965. A quick string of singles and EPs raised expectations, and now Best Coast's debut album more than fulfills them. On a casual listen, Crazy for You sounds little different from the likes of Dum Dum Girls, but closer attention reveals Cosentino's obvious talent for both bubblegummy hooks and girl-group melodrama. The latter is mostly expressed through Cosentino's diary-entry lyrics, almost all of which address lost or leaving loves with a minimum of self-pity and occasional doses of ironic humor. Speeding through 13 songs in just under a half hour, Best Coast have created a top-down summer pop album with greater emotional depth than most of their hipster compatriots have even imagined.
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