New Best Coast: Boyfriend

Here's another great track from Best Coast's forthcoming debut album Crazy For You. Boyfriend is the opening track, a lo-fi lovesong with a very simple yet very catchy one-liner chorus. Listen below, and also listen to two other songs that will appear on the album (When I'm With You being the bonus track). Crazy For You is out July 27 via Mexican Summer.

Best Coast - Boyfriend
Best Coast - Our Deal
Best Coast - When I'm With You

Pearl Harbour = Puro Instinct

The two girls of Pearl Harbour just changed their name to Puro Instinct. This dreampop duo's first release was recently reissued by Mexican Summer, after the first edition sold out some time ago. Puro Instict's new EP will be released in July by Gloriette. You can also get it digitally on Bandcamp, or listen below:

New Transparent release: Weekend / Young Prisms

The latest release by recordlabel/bloggers Transparent is a split 7" by Weekend and Young Prisms. Weekend released a 10" on Mexican Summer earlier (also known from releases by Washed Out and Pearl Harbour). I really liked their song All-American, sounding somewhere near My Bloody Valentine and Japandroids, only with added vacuum cleaner. That's right: even more vacuum cleaner, but still creating great melodies. Their song from the Transparent 7", End Times, can be considered just as genius. This time they sound a bit more New Wave, thanks to the added edgy bassline. Unbelievably, they manage to create a larger-than-life chorus within their shoegaze-sound, going straight through the heart.

Young Prisms' side of the 7" is just as great as their San Francisco friends. Leaning heavily on layers of vocals and guitars with loads of reverb, their song I Don't Get Much sounds dreamy from start to finish.

You can download both songs from Transparent's nice blog. But really, you should buy a copy for 5 bucks from Pure Groove.

Weekend - End Times
Young Prisms - I Don't Get Much

Here's the cover: