Best Coast: "The Only One"

I found the new Best Coast album to be one of the more disappointing of 2012 - the 66% rating on Metacritic making clear that I'm not alone in that - but a) "The Only One" is one of the few songs on the album that can stand up to the brilliance of the band's debut, and b) the video for the song features an entire fridge full of Sriracha. Maybe we haven't parted ways quite yet.

Wavves (feat. Best Coast): "Nodding Off"

Back from vacation, hiatus over.  This is a good summer tune to come back to, the weather in New York seasonal compared to the perennial 105-degree heat wave I left behind in Austin, the return to Austin met with unexpectedly similar cool temperatures as I basked in while guerilla pimping the Big Apple.

"Nodding Off" is primarily a Wavves affair, basically employing singer Nathan Williams' main squeeze Bethany Cosentino (of Best Coast renown) as harmony singer.  There isn't much of the trademark Best Coast lo-fi here, it's primarily well-produced, upbeat party time rock a la Wavves' "King of the Beach".  "Nodding Off" will be featured on the upcoming Life Sux EP, which should be out as soon as the distributor finishes up at your mother's house.

Best Coast: "Our Deal"

I haven't always been on the Drew Barrymore bandwagon - sure, she was adorable in The Wedding Singer - but after Whip It and now this I'm starting to show a little appreciation... although, honestly, I think that has a lot more to do with her choosing more adventurous projects these days than it is that I just vastly under-appreciated Never Been Kissed.  Now she's directing this new vid from ever-trendy Best Coast, featuring Chloe Moretz and Donald Glover, amongst other upstart whippersnappers I've never heard of.

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