If you are a lady, and indie rock musicians have been swimming the waters of your dating pool of late, you will probably identify with at least one of the stories of misguided infatuation and disappointment that Best Coast has been laying out to dry in the sun. Bethany Cosentino is all heart, belting out her little lovesick pop jewels like its 11:59 on December 31, 2011 and she knows that the world is going to end anyway. When it sparked a viral frenzy via this YouTube fan video last summer, her “Sun Was High (So Was I)” track became everybody’s favorite soundtrack for staring straight into the late afternoon sun and imagining the face of the one that got away smiling back at you. “Up all night,” which has also been floating around for some time now, captures the nocturnal flip-side of that experience: looking up at moon from your bedroom window and being unable to see his mournful hazel eyes there because it’s already three am and he didn’t call when he said he was going to. Oh well, child star. He wasn’t really worth your time anyway, and at least you got another beautiful song out of it.

Best Coast, “Up All Night” (Best/Jeans Wilder Split 7 inch, Atelier Ciseaux)

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“Up All Night” will drop Monday, January 18 as the A-Side of a Best Coast/Jeans Wilder split 45 on the enigmatic new French label Atelier Ciseaux, which translates to “Scissors Studio.” Jeans Wilder plays the role of the conciliatory male best friend, spinning a sardonic yarn about a “tough guy” who makes “all the girls swoon” and is looking to send you “to the moon” in a “parking lot.” Oooh là là.

Support our French friends and buy it here. And don’t forget to check out their Lucky Dragons “Vrais Noms – True Names” 7 inch, among other goodies.

Words: Emilie Friedlander

Tags: Atelier Ciseaux, Best Coast, Jeans Wilder, Tough Guys, Up All Night

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