We spent an undue amount of time in 2010 rocking out to Bethany Cosentino’s instant-retro-indie debut album as Best Coast, mostly because it reminded us equal parts 1990s Riot Grrl heyday, ’70s Runaways punk mischief, and ’60s Shangri-La’s pop perfection. Early today, the band announced via Facebook that the second Best Coast album would be produced by multi-instrumental one-man-band-slash-film-composer, producer genius Jon Brion.
“Beyond thrilled to announce that the incredibly talented Jon Brion will be producing the next Best Coast album,” enthused Costello. “Recording begins in a few weeks in LA.”
Brion’s lush and quirky music has been the perfect match for accessibly eccentric films such as I Heart Huckabees, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolias and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latter two earning him Grammy nominations. But he is perhaps best known as sonic genius who gave Kanye’s Late Registration all of those amazing wall of sound flourishes, which makes us wonder if this new partnership between Costello and Brion might not lead to some serious golden-era Phil Spector brilliance.
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