Best Coast: Crazy for You

"You can feel the sand between your toes and the sunscreen on your nose when Bethany Cosentino sings any song off of Best Coast's 2010 smash album Crazy for You. The surf sound melts into girl group giddiness with an unpretentious, garage-derived approach that is perfect spiritual uplift for this moment of economic downturn. (BC makes me wish someone would have thought to have sounded exactly like this during the long, hard slog of the Bush administration. I'm thrilled to have it now.) Songwriters like Cosentino keep proving that the girl group genre has layers of nuance inside its snappy sound when a woman is authoring the outcome. ... The surf sound relies on many elements, Dick Dale-derived reverb chief among them. ... Reverberation is, of course, the persistent sounding of sonic echoes after the originating sound is no longer present. Echoes increase. ... Cosentino's guitar and voice deliver songs of love that showcase the increase as optimism" (S. X. Rosenstock, "Best Coast and Wavves Live," Huffington Post, 2/25/11).
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