Concord MusicThe duo show why they’ve outlasted their beach-bum peers with a delightful study of reinvention and contentment
Best Coast emerged in 2010 as the faces of a
California slacker wave that evangelised cats, weed, guitar and the beach, and not a great deal more – an enviable lifestyle that enchanted fans and chimed with a generation’s post-recession hopelessness, though its burnout was inevitable. Sure enough, Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno’s peers vanished, and their scene’s louche allure was surpassed over the subsequent decade by entrepreneurialism, and later wellness.