Best Coast is an American
rock
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duo formed in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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in 2009. The band consists of songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Bethany Cosentino and guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. Cosentino, a former child actress, began writing music as a teenager and was formerly a member of the experimentalist
drone
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group
Pocahaunted
Pocahaunted (often shortened by the band to P-haunt) was a hypnagogic pop project based in Los Angeles, California founded in 2005 by Amanda Brown and Bethany Cosentino.
History
Amanda Brown co-founded Not Not Fun Records in 2006; she and fr ...
. After a brief stint at college in
New York City
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, Cosentino returned to the West Coast and began recording
lo-fi
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demos with Bruno, whom she met in the Los Angeles music scene.
After a string of
7-inch
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and
cassette
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-only singles, the band signed to
Mexican Summer
Mexican Summer is an independent record label founded in 2009 by Keith Abrahamsson and Andres Santo Domingo. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the label has released recordings from artists including Best Coast, Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink, Allah-Las, W ...
, who issued the band's debut, ''
Crazy for You'', in 2010. It became an unexpected commercial success following Internet buzz surrounding the duo.
Lewis Pesacov of
Fool's Gold
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and
Foreign Born
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produced, engineered and mixed the album. Best Coast added a touring drummer, Ali Koehler of
Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York. The only consistent members have been Cassie Ramone and Katy Goodman, on guitar and bass, respectively; the group has had several drummers throughout its history. They took their n ...
, and spent much of 2011 on the road for festival appearances and tour dates. Best Coast's sophomore effort, ''
The Only Place'', was released in 2012 and featured a cleaner sound than their previous releases. In 2013, the duo released an EP, ''
Fade Away'', and their third studio album, ''
California Nights
"California Nights" is a song written by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore. The song appeared on her 1967 album, '' California Nights''.
Composition
The song was produced by Bob Crewe and arranged by Hutch Davie. T ...
'', was released in May 2015. More recently, Best Coast released their fourth studio album, ''
Always Tomorrow
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'', in February 2020.
History
Formation and early releases (2009)
Best Coast was formed in 2009 by Bethany Cosentino (born November 3, 1986) and Bobb Bruno in Los Angeles, California. Cosentino had been around the Los Angeles music scene from a young age, and had been involved in talent competitions, musicals, audition tapes, and commercials for
Little Caesars
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.
She began writing music at age 15, inspired by
Joni Mitchell,
Joan Baez
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and
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
, as well as
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums, backing vocals), Scott Shriner (bass guitar, keyboards, backing ...
and
Blink-182
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. Cosentino began uploading her music to
MySpace under the name "Bethany Sharayah".
She was approached and offered record deals from major labels in her teens, but resisted as they desired to mold her into a "
pop princess" type.
In the mid-2000s, she met Amanda Brown at the downtown LA
DIY
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venue the Smell. Brown attempted to act as a "big sister" to Cosentino, who seemed "sort of depressed, missing music,
ndfeeling a bit weird about some of her friends."
The two began playing together in the experimentalist,
drone
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* Unmanned aerial vehicle
* Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft
* Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone
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...
group
Pocahaunted
Pocahaunted (often shortened by the band to P-haunt) was a hypnagogic pop project based in Los Angeles, California founded in 2005 by Amanda Brown and Bethany Cosentino.
History
Amanda Brown co-founded Not Not Fun Records in 2006; she and fr ...
.
Pocahaunted's music had no traditional lyrics, and instead contained wordless vocalizations from Cosentino and Brown.
The collaboration began in 2006 and released several cassette-only recordings on local label Not Not Fun. The recordings were supervised and produced by Bobb Bruno, a multi-instrumentalist stalwart in the city's music scene.
Pocahaunted achieved minor success (at one point opening for
Sonic Youth), but Cosentino left the project to pursue creative writing at the
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
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...
in
New York City
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.
Studying journalism and creative nonfiction, she read
Joan Didion
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,
David Foster Wallace
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and other authors she enjoyed and she interned at ''
The Fader
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It is o ...
'', where she penned a fashion column.
Cosentino lived in
Brooklyn
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and all but abandoned her musical pursuits, and soon fell into a mundane routine and
seasonal depression
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Common symptoms include sleeping too much, having li ...
in her second semester, feeling miserable.
Having grown up on the very sunny and warm West Coast, she found the city "stressful, congested and cold," and based much of her nonfiction on California.
Although she felt she would be letting her family and friends down by
dropping out
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Canada
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, she phoned her mother to come help her gather her belongings and return to Los Angeles over the course of a weekend in March/April 2009.
Returning to
La Crescenta
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, she lived with her mother and began work as a part-time sales associate for
Lush, but felt immediately inspired to write new music, using her acoustic guitar to cope with anxiety.
She informed Bruno, and the two began laying down demos in his home studio.
The band's first release, "Sun Was High (So Was I)", was released by Art Fag and was the first of a string of 7-inch singles.
The band's second 7-inch single, "When I'm with You", was financed by Black Iris, which functioned as both a music and film production agency.
Lewis Pesacov oversaw the production, engineering and mixing of "This is Real" & "When I'm With You." After their first experience recording with live drums and "real" production, they made a conscious effort to stray away from their original, more lo-fi and hazy sound.
A collection of 7-inch singles on Art Fag and Black Iris alerted Adam Shore, owner of buzz-generating website The Daily Swarm, who became the group's manager. Jeffery Kaye, label manager of Mexican Summer, discovered the band's music online.
These releases included a cassette tape release, ''Where the Boys Are'', on the U.K. label Blackest Rainbow; a split 7-inch, "Up All Night", on Atelier Ciseaux; and an EP, ''Make You Mine'', on Group Tightener.
Margaret Reges writes that Best Coast had "become something of a sensation by the time 2009 came to a close"; the band enjoyed a bit of attention from the media (notably from ''
Nylon
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''), and ''Make You Mine'' made its way onto a few year-end lists.
The band embarked on its first U.S. tour early the following year, sharing the stage with the
Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York. The only consistent members have been Cassie Ramone and Katy Goodman, on guitar and bass, respectively; the group has had several drummers throughout its history. They took their n ...
.
''Crazy for You'' and ''The Only Place'' (2010–12)
![Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast at the Arches, Glasgow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Bethany_Cosentino_from_Best_Coast_at_the_Arches%2C_Glasgow.jpg)
The duo recorded their debut album, ''
Crazy for You'', for Black Iris at Mexican Radio Studios in Echo Park, California from January to April 2010.
Lewis Pesacov of
Fool's Gold
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and
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produced, engineered and mixed the album. "Boyfriend" was released as the lead single from the album on June 29, 2010. ''Crazy for You'' became a mainstream success upon its July 2010 release as a result of Internet buzz. It entered the ''Billboard'' 200 at number 36 with 10,000 units sold and debuted at No. 10 on Digital Albums.
The album's success led to maximum exposure: "the blogosphere was suddenly abuzz with talk about her album, her tweets, her personal life, her daily habits and even one of her cats."
Alongside the quick success came an intense level of scrutiny, Internet haters and venom from selected critics, some of whom viewed Cosentino's material as anti-feminist.
''Crazy for You'' and its sound, "simple and pungent songs
..toying with 1950s and '60s melodic structures," had become something of a touchstone for Best Coast and adopted by several other bands. Cosentino hid her vocals behind layers of reverb and distortion, which was an extension of her onstage anxiety.
The band continued to gain popularity over the course of 2010 and 2011, due in part to touring and festival appearances.
Ali Koehler of
Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York. The only consistent members have been Cassie Ramone and Katy Goodman, on guitar and bass, respectively; the group has had several drummers throughout its history. They took their n ...
became the band's interim touring drummer, but was ousted from the group at the end of 2011. During this period, much of the band's press consisted of details on Cosentino's relationship with
Wavves
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' Nathan Williams. The two collaborated and toured together throughout 2011
in a joint effort dubbed the ''Summer Is Forever'' tour.
The extensive travel schedule subsequently inspired the lyrical content of the band's sophomore effort, ''
The Only Place'' (2012). Cosentino felt that her life had dramatically changed in the two years following its release, having never spent so much time away from home.
The duo had a desire to create a record that "nobody was going to call lo-fi," and Bruno reached out to his former boss, producer/composer
Jon Brion
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Brion has ...
, known for his work on
Kanye West
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Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the ea ...
's ''
Late Registration
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'' (2005).
''
The Only Place'', released in May 2012, was recorded at Capitol Records Studio B in
Los Angeles, California
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.
While previous recording sessions were marked by goofing off and studying, the duo took their sophomore effort more seriously and strove to create a different sound.
The decision to work with producer Jon Brion was an effort to bring polish to the mixes. Brion, who admired ''Crazy for You'' and its production, planned to stay out of the way during sessions, hoping primarily to bring out Cosentino's vocals and emphasize the low-end of the mixes. Brion noted that the duo "were curious to not use the reverb thing as a crutch."
Brion equipped the duo with vintage analog gear, and attempted to make use of the studio's
Les Paul-designed reverb chambers.
Brion noted that Cosentino and Bruno "have a secret language," and he merely suggested a few different guitars.
''Fade Away'', ''California Nights'' and ''Always Tomorrow'' (2013–present)
Best Coast's next release, an EP entitled ''
Fade Away'', was released on October 22, 2013 on singer Bethany Cosentino's new label, Jewel City.
In October 2013, the band produced a charit
t-shirtfor the
Yellow Bird Project
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to raise money and awareness for the L.A. Animal Rescue. The shirt was launched at their Animal Rescue benefit concert, which took place at
The Fonda Theatre
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on October 21, 2013. The duo toured with the
Pixies
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in early 2014.
The duo released their third studio album, ''
California Nights
"California Nights" is a song written by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore. The song appeared on her 1967 album, '' California Nights''.
Composition
The song was produced by Bob Crewe and arranged by Hutch Davie. T ...
'', on May 5, 2015. It was recorded, like ''Fade Away'', with Wally Gagel at his Wax Ltd studio.
The album was completed in April 2014. The album was initially reported to be produced by
Butch Walker
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.
On March 10, 2015 the duo shared a lyric video for "Heaven Sent", a cut off the LP.
In early 2016, the band embarked with Wavves on another extensive concert tour, billed as ''Summer Is Forever II'' and including the California indie rock band
Cherry Glazerr.
On September 11, 2017 Best Coast began touring as support on
Paramore's tour for their new release ''
After Laughter''. In October 2017, the band headlined the first ever VintageVibe Festival with groups such as
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and
Nick Waterhouse
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Early life
Waterhouse was born in ...
in
Palm Springs, California.
In June 2018, Best Coast released their first album targeted to children called ''Best Kids''. Besides covers like "
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
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", it also contains originals such as the lead single "Cats & Dogs".
In May 2019, Best Coast was announced as the house band on
aftershow
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parody TV series ''
What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage''.
On January 17, 2020, Best Coast released a new single, "Everything Has Changed". On the same day, they announced in an Instagram post the release of their fourth album, ''Always Tomorrow'', which was released on February 21, 2020 via
Concord Records
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.
Musical style and influences
![Bestcoast](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Bestcoast.jpg)
Best Coast was originally loosely inspired by
The Beatles
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and
The Beach Boys
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, as well as straightforward 1950s/1960s pop music.
The band's music was described by ''
The Guardian
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'' as "like a lo-fi 60s garage rock and surfing band fronted by a girl group singer". "Drawing inspiration from '60s surf rock and girl groups, Best Coast's noisy lo-fi sound gave a nod to contemporaneous acts like Hot Lava, the Vivian Girls, and Brilliant Colors," wrote Margaret Reges of
Allmusic
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.
Weezer
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and
Blink-182
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partially inspired Cosentino's songwriting, and Best Coast have covered the Blink-182 song "
Dammit
"Dammit" (sometimes subtitled "Growing Up") is a song by American rock band Blink-182, released on September 23, 1997, as the second single from the group's second studio album, '' Dude Ranch'' (1997). Written by bassist Mark Hoppus, the song c ...
" in concert.
Pitchfork Media
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writes that "Best Coast carry enough influence from 90s California
pop punk
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that they would've been right at home on a late-90s
Warped Tour
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stage."
Some genres they have been tagged as includes
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and su ...
,
surf/surf pop,
indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produc ...
,
alternative rock
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,
power pop
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,
noise pop
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,
garage rock and
jangle pop
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.
The band's second album, ''
The Only Place'', was developed with a variety of influences: traditional
country music
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(such as
Loretta Lynn
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,
Dusty Springfield
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and
Patsy Cline
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),
Eagles
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,
Fleetwood Mac and
Drake
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* Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name
* Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* ...
's ''
Take Care''.
''Fade Away'', the band's 2013 EP, was primarily inspired by
Mazzy Star
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Mazzy St ...
, Patsy Cline and
My Bloody Valentine.
For their third album ''
California Nights
"California Nights" is a song written by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore. The song appeared on her 1967 album, '' California Nights''.
Composition
The song was produced by Bob Crewe and arranged by Hutch Davie. T ...
'', Cosentino cited
Gwen Stefani,
Sugar Ray
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and
The Go-Go's
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as influences.
Band members
Current members
*Bethany Cosentino – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano (2009–present)
*Bobb Bruno – lead guitar, bass guitar, drums,
production
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(2009–present)
Touring members
*Brett Mielke – bass guitar, backing vocals (2012–present)
*
Joseph Bautista – rhythm guitar, keyboards (2015–present)
Former touring members
*Ali Koehler – drums, backing vocals (2010–2011)
*Brady Miller – drums (2012–2016)
*Dylan Wood – drums (2017–2019)
Discography
* ''
Crazy for You'' (2010)
* ''
The Only Place'' (2012)
* ''
California Nights
"California Nights" is a song written by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore. The song appeared on her 1967 album, '' California Nights''.
Composition
The song was produced by Bob Crewe and arranged by Hutch Davie. T ...
'' (2015)
* ''Best Kids'' (2018)
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Always Tomorrow
"Always Tomorrow" is a song by Cuban American singer and songwriter Gloria Estefan, released worldwide on October 12, 1992 as the first single by Epic Records from her compilation album, ''Greatest Hits''. The song is written by Estefan and pro ...
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