Singer/songwriter/guitarist Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, better known as Best Coast, released their third full-length album, California Nights, earlier this year on Harvest Records. California Nights is a brighter, more sparkly, more sophisticated, more psychedelic Best Coast album across the board, embodying the rich lightness and stinging darkness of a California state-of-mind. The love stories Bethany spins on California Nights all detail the highs and the lows of relationships, similar to the juxtaposition of the band’s native Los Angeles – a place tinted by candy-coloured palm trees and pale blue skies while existing within the loneliness and desperation of a waterless place. More than that, there is a literal meaning to the record’s title – Cosentino is a well-documented insomniac whose creativity spirals out in the early hours of the morning, allowing her to write, undisturbed, and the result is the finest album Best Coast has made to date.