Best Coast - 31 January 2011, Washington DC

I'm picking these guys for a return visit for the Harvest Festival. I recorded their Falls Festival sideshow at the start of the year. It was an alright show, but everything starts to sound the same after a while. They'd probably be more entertaining playing a festival set, so Harvest could be good.

This is from a show broadcast on NPR a couple of years ago, prior to the release of their second album. Similarly to their set here, this starts to sound the same after a while, but it has lots of their good songs from their first album.

Bratty B
Summer Mood
Goodbye
Crazy for You
The End
Make You Mine
Sunny Adventure
Far Away
Fist City
Boyfriend
Wish He Was You
I Want To
When I'm With You
When the Sun Don't Shine
That's the Way Boys Are
Our Deal
When You Wake Up
Sun Was High (So Was I)
Something in the Way

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Best Coast - 2 January 2013, The HiFi

…and on to main act – Best Coast. Officially the band are touring their new album ‘The Only Place, but it hasn’t received great reviews (even though the songs they played weren’t bad) and the band almost seemed apologetic about playing songs from it, instead focussing on material from their debut. Like Bleeding Knees Club, Best Coast’s music has a tendency to sound a bit samey, but they offset this with some incredibly catchy songs that, even if they’re still part of the same formula, are good enough that it doesn’t really matter.

The sound for this is really really good, but the performance itself is basically a standard run through. Nothing wrong with it, but it won’t be a show that sticks in the mind.

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