The Only Place
Best Coast's Jon Brion-produced second album finds the band leaning toward alt country and working in a more stripped-down mode, with Bethany Cosentino's voice front-and-center.
Best Coast’s sophomore album, The Only Place, is a more mature effort from the California nostalgia-pop duo, but it would almost have to be. On the group’s 2010 debut, Crazy For You, beach brat Bethany Cosentino, then in her early 20s but writing much younger, sang of wasted days spent pining for boys and smoking pot.…
In 2010 Bethany Cosentino won over the ears of well, damn near everyone and their mother, with her band Best Coast’s debut…
Erring on the side of repetitive it might be, but ‘The Only Place’ is not without its charms.
Remember that friend who decided they'd just take a few years off to relax and "enjoy life"?
<p>The Californian duo's second album works well – until they dabble in introspection, writes <strong>Phil Mongredien</strong></p>
On The Only Place, the band sounds like they’re struggling to come up with a new template.
Bethany Constantino has ditched her lo-fi sound for something brighter, but her bored-and-lazy slacker shtick is getting, well, boring, writes <strong>Jude Rogers</strong>
California duo keep things simple on their sunny sophomore release. CD review by Lisa-Marie Ferla