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Best Coast: "How They Want Me To Be"

11:07 a.m. · August 5, 2011 · by Andrew Winistorfer

As a sort of victory lap for a pretty great 12 months, Best Coast has released "How They Want Me To Be," a new jam on Soundcloud. It's got a girl group sway to it, and it's also a lot slower than a normal Best Coast song. It's hard to do this kind of music convincingly and keep people's attention for a prolonged period of time (ask Vivian Girls and Cults) but Best Coast have this on lock. 

Don't get any hopes for a sophomore album though: It's apparently "very far away" from being created. Best Coast posted this message with the song:  

 

You guys have been some of the most wonderful fans this past year, and I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting Best Coast. When times are rough for me, and I am traveling and not sleeping, and am worried about daily life, it always makes me feel better to know that my fans are out there. I know I've been talking a lot about our second album, but it's still very far away from being created. I wanted to share a bit of life from recent Best Coast with you guys, so I thought I would post this song for you all to hear as a little teaser for the album. This song was recorded a few months ago at Black Iris, the same studio we recorded "Crazy For You." This song is not properly mixed, it's mostly a rough studio demo of a song I wrote and wanted to record. I am about 99% sure that this song will get re-recorded and changed up a bit and will end up on our second album. It's called "How They Want Me To Be." It's just a small taste of what's to come, and I wanted to give you guys something to get excited about since you've been the best fans in the whole world! I am off to New York to start a weekend of fly in dates, so wish me luck, and I hope you all love this song and I can't wait to record more. Love, Bethany

 

Listen to the song over here.