On the debut solo album from Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, the Los-Angeles based singer / songwriter takes close account of the endless catastrophes and upheavals of modern life, offering a high-minded and open-hearted response that makes room for compassion, imagination, and a radical sense of possibility.
“If you had asked Bethany Cosentino — best known for the last decade and a half as the frontwoman of acclaimed band Best Coast — a few years ago if she was going to make a solo album, the answer would have been a quick “no.” But then everything changed. Literally everything. The list is long and we all know it: A global pandemic; climate change ravaging the world; a diseased patriarchy stomping daily on democracy and basic human rights; countless national tragedies; a never-ending, pervasive sense of doom. It’s against this backdrop that Cosentino was forced to take stock of it all and jump off the merry-go-round of countless album cycles and tours.
“I don’t think I ever really had the opportunity to look at my life under such a magnifying glass, because I was always preoccupied in some capacity,” she explains. “It allowed me an opportunity to really ask myself: What do you want? What happens if you stop living your life for other people, and you finally subscribe to the idea that you don’t owe anyone anything, but you owe yourself everything?”
The official visualizer for Bethany Cosentino’s “Easy” and “It’s Fine” from her upcoming solo debut album ‘Natural Disaster’, out July 28th.
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