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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
The record already sounds something close to seminal – if not one of the definitive efforts of 2010, certainly one of the most important to come out of the west coast in the past few years
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9.0
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musicOMH
Here arrives the first "star" from a productive lo-fi music scene... Simple but impossible not to adore: that's Best Coast
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9.0
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Consequence Of Sound
Crazy for You delightfully munches on your ear, raising all those frisky hairs on the back of your neck
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9.0
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Independent on Sunday
Channels the spirit of the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes via early Blondie, the Go-Gos and the Bangles
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8.5
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BBC
Its unlikely that Cosentino’s lyrical conceits would affect the way they do if they weren’t coupled with such winning melodies, such vivid choruses, such memorable hooks
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8.4
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Pitchfork
It may be a summer album by design (I mean, for Christ's sake-- that cover), but I'll place my bet that Crazy for You will sound pretty great all damn year, and beyond.
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8.0
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NME
There's plenty of these new Shangri-lo-fi bands around at the moment, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls et al, but Best Coast have shot straight to the top of the pile for two reasons: great songs, and immense charm
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8.0
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The Digital Fix
Crazy For You only has two gears - skip-down-the-boardwalk chirpy and sittin'-on-the-dock-of-the-bay wistful - and the whole album is drenched in just enough reverb to place it among any number of young American indie bands (The Drums, Wavves, Vivian Girls, etc.)
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8.0
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Uncut
The Crystals of the blogosphere. Print edition only
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The Guardian
Dreamy poppets of tom-tom heavy, hazy pop that rarely last more than two-minutes-30. A charming introduction
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8.0
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PopMatters
You might think you’ve already heard much of what Best Coast has to offer, but Crazy for You shows there’s always a novel way to tell an old story
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8.0
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Mojo
Utterly loveable debut. Print edition only
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8.0
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Spin
A soundtrack to bikini season as it's actually experienced, racked by impossible expectations and as high as the tide line
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8.0
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State
There are plenty of bands trading on this type of garage pop, there always has been, but few seem to possess the charm that has gotten Best Coast this far. Will it change your life? Probably not. Will you care? Not a chance
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8.0
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FasterLouder
If everyone caught up in a one-sided love affair could put it to such good use as this instead of putting it into Facebook status updates, the world would be better off. At the very least, we’d have some rad tunes to soundtrack those moments of heartache
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
She's far from the first to marry sweet tunes and rough instrumentation but she's doing it better than most right now
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8.0
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The Observer
When every song delivers a two-minute blast of surf-pop perfection, who cares about variety?
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8.0
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Prefix
The album is filled with well-conceived, well-executed pop pieces
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7.5
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Beats Per Minute
If the worst criticism you can make about the album is that there’s no surprise that one playful, mid-tempo garage-rock tune will follow the next, you still have a great beach listen on your hands
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7.5
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Bowlegs
Your life will be a little brighter for listening to it, and sometimes, that’s all an album needs
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7.0
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The Fly
With a little more lyrical substance, Best Coast could have something truly stunning
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Modern but classic, it's a summer play-on-repeat record that even your grandma might dig
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7.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Although the term "seasonal music" is overused to the point of it being meaningless, Crazy For You, with its fuzzy guitars and pools of reverb, might just be the perfect summer album
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6.0
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Drowned In Sound
The sheer quantity of longing on this album positively soaks the speakers, almost every track a paean to forbidden and lost love
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6.0
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Eye Weekly
Though it’s still somewhat disposable, at least Crazy For You’s songs will last longer than their contemporaries’ ever-present reverb
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6.0
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Q
A sweetly engaging mix of lo-fi indie-rock and '60s girl group innocence. Print edition only
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The Irish Times
Blissful and carefree, Crazy for You could be a harbinger for things to come; for now, just lie back and enjoy the sunshine
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6.0
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The Skinny
There’s a lot of charm in the diary-entry lyrics about boys, and Cosentino’s manifesto is made clear instantly through opener Boyfriend
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