Blog: 32ft/Second

This was the year that Beth Cosentino's love for the West Coast had her writing slow songs. California finally made the gittery, faux-edgy garage pop girl go soft. It was as pretty as it was unsettling. The Lovely Bad Things , who I presume take similar thesis-statement license with their name as Cosentino does with Best Coast , aren't there yet. Lead track, "I Want You To Go Away" means exactly what it says, emphasizing the notion of separation with unacademic dismissals like, "I don't give a shit." This line rhymes with the pedantic [...]

• The Lovely Bad Things - I Just Want You To Go Away