Real name: Bethany Cosentino

Effective period / Period of releases: 2014 - 2023

Bethany Cosentino was a former child actress, began writing music as a teenager and was formerly a member of the experimentalist drone group Pocahaunted. After a brief tenure at college in New York City, Cosentino returned to the West Coast and began recording lo-fi demos with Bob Bruno, whom she met in the Los Angeles music scene. Those demos would eventually become the first songs for Best Coast.