Album Review: Best Coast Show There’s “Always Tomorrow”

There are only two bands vying for my affection when it comes to SoCal rock that warps you to the vintage beaches of 60’s California: Cults and Best Coasts. These bands are untouchable in igniting within listeners a soundscape that, literally, feels like you are drag-racing by the beach with a bunch of good-looking greasers. Yet, being the coolest outsider is Best Coast’s MO, and Always Tomorrow furthers their ability to make being a dreamy outcast equal to becoming a cool protagonist.

Best Coast – Everything Has Changed (Official Music Video)

Maybe, it is that I have done a few interviews in the past weeks, including with the fantastic Kaye, but Best Coast’s Always Tomorrow is really singing to an upcoming nuance in the wave of anxiety tapping into genres. From pop to rock, everyone singing to how stress they are, but Best Coast add a maturity to the mental health awareness discussion: positivity is learning that being able to dream is as much, if not, more important than achieving a dream. In essence, the act of dreaming should be protected more than the dream, itself. It is a really deep thought that the duo weave as they face building their identity, overcoming false hopes, and understanding who or what you give your heart is not a light choice or an easy process.

Best Coast – For The First Time (Official Music Video)

Sonically, Always Tomorrow feels both concise and heightened. They still have their titular Best Coast hooks that arrange chords like twinkling, streamed lights or, at least, headlights on a San Fran valley. Moreover, Bethany Cosentino’s voice has an innate, sweet rebelliousness to it. Her tone and texture naturally emanate the highs and lows of loving yourself one day and wishing the last person you had to be was you in the next. Thus, Always Tomorrow feels like their philosophical growth matched with a sound that feel like their clearest, most confident embracing of their style. To Buy Always Tomorrow on February 21 Click Here.