The Daily Spin, December 19
COIN | How Will You Know If You Never Try
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite songs from each album right here.
Album: How Will You Know If You Never Try (2017)
Artist: COIN
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I feel like I could essentially copy + paste the Valley review from the other day and not miss a beat for this one - the only major difference between the two is that COIN relies more heavily on their guitars to wail and scream, while Valley are content with synths as options.
COIN were at the forefront of that LA beach wave movement, at least as it appeared within my playlists - in a group that included the Lagoons and the Band Camino, COIN stood out as the most rock-like of those groups, all energy and drive in a genre that seemed to be wavering between action and rest.
That feels like the legacy of How Will You Know, as well - between songs that sound like everyone and no one, with calls to Vampire Weekend moments before a track that evokes the best of the Royal Concept or Colony House, there are these delightful glimpses of this very synthetic future, one in which the noise still feels like the past.
Rating: 8.2/10
Best Tracks: Talk Too Much; I Don’t Wanna Dance; Hannah
Worst Tracks: Miranda Beach