Best Coast - The Only Place Review

Best Coast is a California surf-rock band consisting of Bethany Cosentino on lead guitar and vocals, and Bobb Bruno on varying instruments. Best Coast released their debut album Crazy for You in 2010 and I learned of them just last summer. Crazy for You and Best Coast's sound in general is a very simplistic distortion heavy, surf rock sound with the typical girl-band lyrics, which is certainly not a bad thing. The charm of Best Coast's sound is Bethany's lackadaisical vocals and the very lighthearted subjects of boys, laziness, and loving home highlighted in their single When I'm With You. If you're someone who only prefers the most complex of instrumentation and lyrical art you will not enjoy this, the reason people love the band is the simplicity and the catchy sound. With that background I move onto their latest release, The Only Place. 

The past few months I've really been into Best Coast, seeing at Urban Outfitters during SxSW, needless to say I was very excited to hear their latest work. I stayed away from song leaks to avoid any anticipation or dread that might've come along with it.

Wait, we didn't win the draft lottery!?

I sit here watching Mad Men on Netflix, after listening to Best Coast's latest album (review up later) something was on my mind, "oh right I had to do another sports blog entry...oh right the NBA draft lottery was today". I figured what better thing to talk about than the lottery and the upcoming NBA Draft? And yeah you may be wondering why I'm not discussing the playoffs well...in the words of the infamous Jim Mora tirade, "playoffs?!"

You thought I'd discuss the playoffs? No way, that's for fans of successful teams, and a group us Suns fans are traditionally apart of that. With the team in the lottery for the second straight year and about to enter the most crucial off-season in the past decade, I've come to terms with the harsh truth...the Suns are about to enter a rebuilding phase.

This isn't a familiar phase as Phoenix has been, historically one of the NBA's most successful franchises. The Steve Nash era has most likely come to an end in Phoenix, the front office now looks to the future and faces the most pivotal short period this summer. So this arises the great question, what happens with the draft?