Bethany Cosentino’s adoration for her cat, weed and the hazy days of summer make for some amazing noise-pop tunes. The debut of Cosentino, and bassist, Bobb Bruno’s, full album, Crazy for You, on July 27, is one big, grungy, unfinished California daze. Cosentino’s voice is often reflective of the nineties Lilith chicks such as Liz Phair, but her sound is much more undefined with garage band background noise. Most tracks on the album prove to be a ray of sunshine on a sandy beach (hence the track, Summer Mood), but a few tracks take the kick ass risk of being mellow indie-pop.

To define Best Coast’s music would fall somewhere in between doo-wop nostalgic pop and noise rock. The band’s debut track, When I’m With You is a romantic number that flutters: “The world is lazy/ But you and me / We’re just crazy.” One of the best tracks on the album displays the hopeless romantic lyrics of Cosentino showing an obvious he/she wants what they can’t have situation.  In Our Deal, Cosentino coos: “I wish you would tell me how you really feel/ But you’ll never tell me ‘cause that’s not our deal.”

Cosentino’s longing for a boyfriend is super nostalgic and creates a Twilight Zone-like trance when listening to Boyfriend: “I wish he was my boyfriend/ I wish he was my boyfriend/I’d love him ‘til the very end/ I wish he was my boyfriend.” The very nineties sounding Goodbye shows the bratty, lo-fi voice that Cosentino makes sound so damn good. Best Coast’s longing for simpler beachy times shows through in the mellower track, The End. The harmonizing vocals make the track sound very much like a song from the fifties: “You say that we’re just friends/But I want this ‘til the end.”

Cosentino’s boyfriend and frontman of Wavves, Nathan Williams, definitely serves as a great influence of the album- due to the lovelorn lyrics about summer romances. This album is perfect for summertime and is as addictive as that cigarette you need to have every time you pop the cap off of a beer. Best Coast will continue on their summer tour, heading out with Male Bonding during the fall. Everything Cosentino sings about is so relatively normal that you just have to love her. And who can’t relate to that? I give it a 9.3.