Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:28 minutes | 845 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Fourth album by the American rock duo comprising Bethany Cosentino (guitar, vocals) and Bobb Bruno (guitar). The album, produced by Carlos de la Garza, with additional production by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Paramore, M83), is the band’s first album of new studio material since their acclaimed 2015 record ‘California Nights’.
On the shoegaze-swirly “I Used to Be,” Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino nails the theme of the band’s fourth album: “I am not the same girl that I used to be.” This is a soundtrack of rebirth, five years after the band’s last release and the first since Cosentino got sober. She sounds absolutely joyous about her new life on “For the First Time” and “Everything Has Changed,” where Best Coast’s other half Bobb Bruno pounds out “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll” drums beneath a Muffs-esque melody. Cosentino also sounds bigger and better: a fuller voice complimented with layered harmonies, as on “Different Light,” which charges out of the gate with a Go-Go’s punch of bright chords and surf punk drums. There’s plenty of swooning romance to balance the hard-charging energy — “True” summons up 1950s prom sweetness, and the big guitar licks of “Master of My Own Mind” melt into a dreamy bridge. “I quit drinking so I could stop thinking about all the shit from years ago,” Cosentino sings on “Graceless Kids.” Sounds like it worked. – Shelly Ridenour
Tracklist:
1. Different Light (3:12)
2. Everything Has Changed (3:34)
3. For The First Time (3:39)
4. Graceless Kids (3:09)
5. Wreckage (3:24)
6. Rollercoaster (3:50)
7. Master Of My Own Mind (3:17)
8. True (3:19)
9. Seeing Red (3:51)
10. Make It Last (3:47)
11. Used To Be (4:31)
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