113 BEST COAST - “WHEN I´M WITH YOU”
So she moved to New York City and started working on music that blended the vulnerability of Girly Sound-era Liz Phair with a budget version of Phil Spector’s wall-of-sound splendor.
Cowritten with multi-instrumentalist bandmate Bobb Bruno, gorgeously reverbed ballads like “Make You Mine,” “Boyfriend,” and “When I’m With You” were inspired by her memories of growing up in L.A. and are suffused with a classically Californian melancholy. “I listen to a lot of ’60s beach music,” she explains. “It sounds happy and innocent, but it was made during a time that wasn’t happy or innocent at all.”
Turns out other people love bittersweet beach tunes, too. Thurston Moore, who once handpicked an old Cosentino project to open for Sonic Youth, has professed his fandom; “When I’m With You” is featured in commercials for the hit BBC teen drama Skins” (Melissa Maerz. Spin Magazine)
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