By Steve Appleford, Special to the Los Angeles Times
February 5, 2012
Somewhere deep in the catacombs of Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Bethany Cosentino has found a little place of her own. It's squeezed into a tight corner in the control room of Studio B, where she sits behind an ancient synthesizer to relax or think or read her book, "Tusk," about the Fleetwood Mac album of the same name. The keyboard is her desk. She's never played it.
For nearly two months, the singer-guitarist has been here with her friend and musical partner Bobb Bruno, hard at work on their second album as the band Best Coast. The follow-up to their 2010 breakthrough garage-pop debut, "Crazy for You," is already highly anticipated, and the pressure is on.
"We're a lot more relaxed now," says Cosentino as she settles into these final days of recording. "When we first started, we were like, 'What do we do?'"
So she's been reading about Fleetwood Mac for inspiration and guidance, just as she's repeatedly watched Metallica implode and come back again in the documentary "Some Kind of Monster." "There is something to be learned from their examples of high anxiety and survival, and of taking creative leaps of faith."
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