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Tripe.

Is about as eloquent as I can get on the subject

I really thought her early 7" were amazing her lp on Mex summer was decent but this new song is pretty shitty

If so am gutted, i fucking loved the first album. Used to sing along to it in the shower and everything.
Bummer :(

Seems the same as first album. All songs very similar and boring and get old pretty quick. Don't see any difference with this one.

When she got rid of the fuzz and rawness of her early singles, for me her first lp was a bit of a let down to pollished and predictable nothing really stood out,

Don't be all haterzz, I like it loads so far.

the new single is brilliant. What best coast do, er, best- summer in a song. And surely there's a hint of irony in 'we always have fun'. Isn't this album supposed to be dark or something?

the debut was boring
haven't heard the new one

I mean, the debut was pretty shit but i could see the appeal, shallow thrills. But this... it's beyond awful. I did a review of it for this thing and gave it a score of -9000, which I thought was pretty generous really.

loved the early singles, thought the album was good but abit samey (though strong for a debut), so far the new one, the vocals seem abit too loud in the mix ive got a feeling it might be a grower though as I didnt like the first song from it the first time I heard it but now I quite like it.

I can understand people not liking it though, especially fans of her early stuff because this doesnt have any resemblance to those songs

Like, the Initial Friend EP stuff. But without any of the personality or half-interesting lyrics.

Also sounds a bit like it was written with the intention of it accompanying the opening credits of a new, Dawson's Creek / OC type American teen drama.

and even if the lyrics are ironic, it still sounds incredibly anodyne.

Oh well, we'll always have the first album, which still sounds absolutely amazing on a sunny day.

the whole "we're so chill dude" shtick, the "omg cute cats LOL!!11 :3 :3 :3" shit, the lack of any lyrical focus and instrumentation consisting of little more than guitar chords. We'll be cringing in a few years for sure.

in that way, they're kind of like a modern equivalent to the Vines

But they are truly one of the worst live bands around

hope the 2nd album is great too.

I think it is the subject matter that lets it down, the monotony of being in a mid level successful indie band is not very interesting

very fun album. Shame if the follow up is poo.

If the rest of the album is not as good as this, then it's a shame.

"Written for Notion Magazine

A stars-and-stripes collagen plumps the bikini-clad body of Best Coast’s music like a botoxed slab of Blackpool rock. Such lo fi stupidity fills 32 vacuous minutes with headless bambi-crap that’s backward even for the picket-fence pout that surrounds its plastic ‘50s context. Coincidentally ‘The Only Place’ with its titular mention, must be an assimilation of lead singer Bethany Cosentino’s 1950s&60s bedroom memorabilia. Her vultured-twee-chic and submissive lyricism could turn the Brontë sisters into comparative militant feminists (“If I sleep on the floor/will it make you love me more?”) whilst a frilly-girl cupcake romanticism perches upon the proverbial balcony to decry equality in three minute bubblegum bursts (“I want to be a better girl”). It isn’t Shakespearean ivory that creeps up the throat here - it’s a bad Californian suntan. Yawn."

There's more but this sums it up pretty well.

Terrible, juvenile album equates to an elaborate second album that is just as terrible.

but without anything to hold interest.

and it's still good.

#earlystuff