Crazy for You isn't exactly ambitious: It's going for, well, frothily primitive charm, captured in deceptively simple sentiments like "When I'm with you, I have fun." Darkness stays mostly confined to ...

Best Coast, "The Only Place." Best Coast’s second album opens with its bouncy, sunny title track, with Bethany Cosentino singing of the California she clearly loves, asking “why would you live ...

I thought Best Coast’s debut album “Crazy For You” was a love letter to California but the title track and first single for their sophomore album is even MORE so! Sun-soaked and sweet, the song ...

Crazy for You was an interesting case study: It was thrilling because it was a “new” reinvention of an old sound, and it was part of a minor wave of surf-adjacent indie pop (along with Wavves, the ...