Written by Elsa Brown: Listening to Best Coast’s music is like gazing through the hazy sun at a high school lover on a Southern California beach. The band is basically Bethany Cosentino, a 23-year-old California native and former child actor, whose blog is a steady stream of cat photos, retro YouTube music clips and Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks adoration.

Best Coast delivers lo-fi, catchy, drifty songs that draw heavy influence from sixties girl groups, but feel so fresh they could be from the future, like something your little sister listened to when she was your mom. With a mix of sincerity and happy lassitude, Cosentino belts about infatuation, young love, pop-heartache and walking down the street stoned, and as she does, it’s like you’re walking along beside her, swaying in the summer afternoon. Listen to When I’m With You below…

BEST COAST ON MYSPACE
BEST COASTY BLOG

VINTAGE SOUND WITH DELTA SPIRIT
ANTHONY VALADEZ AUDIO/VISUAL
THE DIRTY PROJECTORS

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