Deeply satisfying on multiple levels, Always Tomorrow is great guitar pop and a bracing account of one person’s struggle to construct a new life.
Overtly joyous and bulging with emotions both past and present, this album displays Best Coast at their most content. A rose-tinted outlook has never felt so great.
Five years on from California Nights, Bethany Cosentino delivers a thoughtful paean to self-care at the second attempt.
In the ten years since Crazy for You, Best Coast and their fans have grown up. This album reflects that without losing the fun and catchiness that brought about their fame in the first place.
The duo show why they’ve outlasted their beach-bum peers with a delightful study of reinvention and contentment.
If the album has any disadvantages, it is that many of the songs sound similar. However, subsequent listens reveal layers previously unheard and the uniqueness of many of the songs comes out.
Singer Bethany Cosentino continues treading the topics of insecurity and self-doubt, but Always Tomorrow is defined by her personal development, which includes her new levels of self-acceptance and gratitude.
Not all of these explorations quite work, though they show a promising future for Best Coast.
With 'Always Tomorrow' Best Coast have not only shown they're survivors but have also paved a way to a happier and, hopefully, more productive future.
The band’s new LP is a rosily optimistic record that showcases Bethany Cosentino’s expanding range as a vocalist and songwriter.
Always Tomorrow always chooses cosseting its audience over confronting more painful truths.
‘Always Tomorrow’ boasts a handful of punchy, promising songs but it’s frustratingly unambitious in scope. When the album treads old ground, the ideas are stale.
Unfortunately, the music doesn’t do the lyrics any favors, a real surprise coming from an artist whose earlier LPs established her as one of indie-pop’s sharpest melodists.
Maybe broken into a series of singles or a couple of EPs it would have been more palatable, but in this form it's just too samey and underwhelming to make much of an impression.
Despite it taking four years to come out, pretty much all of the songs on Always Tomorrow are forgettable, and made up of riffs so basic and hooks so anonymous that you’ll probably end up wishing they’d have waited a little longer.
Best Coast are one of them bands that keep to their signature vibe without much deviation in style, sound or songwriting. Their lo-fi beginnings on the summery Crazy For You was like a snapshot of the era, invoking the times of my youth when I hadn't a care in the world. 2015's California Nights was a turning point however in which their songs started to become more mature and tighter, with great production that continued their summer L.A vibes to new highs.
So with their newest album Always ... read more
Taking a more jangle pop approach to their indie surf style, this record may not be anything new or genre pushing in the grand scheme of things, but it's nice and summery rock music that always puts a smile on my face.
One of the most generic albums of this year.
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Best Coast are one of them bands that keep to their signature vibe without much deviation in style, sound or songwriting. Their lo-fi beginnings on the summery Crazy For You was like a snapshot of the era, invoking the times of my youth when I hadn't a care in the world. 2015's California Nights was a turning point however in which their songs started to become more mature and tighter, with great production that continued their summer L.A vibes to new highs.
So with their newest album Always ... read more
Taking a more jangle pop approach to their indie surf style, this record may not be anything new or genre pushing in the grand scheme of things, but it's nice and summery rock music that always puts a smile on my face.
Best Coast always puts out pretty soaring and lovey indie pop. There's some good stuff on here, ho hum. This review is boring because I'm getting bored of waiting for another great Best Coast project.
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3 | For The First Time 3:38 | 100 |
4 | Graceless Kids 3:09 | 100 |
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6 | Rollercoaster 3:50 | 100 |
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