Fade Away by Best Coast

Fade Away, a 2013 EP from Best Coast, came out that October on Jewel City, Bethany Cosentino's own label, and it sounds like the Los Angeles duo stepping back into the shade after the sunburn. Cosentino and Bobb Bruno cut it with producer Wally Gagel at Wax Ltd's studios, and they had their reference points pinned to the wall: Mazzy Star's haze, Patsy Cline's heartache, My Bloody Valentine's blur. The jangle is still there, but it's wrapped in reverb and a little dread, and Cosentino wrote "Fear of My Identity" about the existential spiral she went into after taking Ambien.

Critics mostly liked it: Rolling Stone heard the band's first two albums folded together, and Alternative Press went so far as to call it the band's best work yet. "This Lonely Morning" is the track that found its way onto the countdowns.

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