Best Coast the band has finished tracking their third album, which is yet to be titled or have an official release date according to SPIN. Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Cosentino says it's the band's third album because 2013's "Fade Away," a seven-track album released through Cosentino's own Jewel City was "not really a full record." "I wanted to put something out that was almost a preview to a new record," Cosentino said to SPIN. "If people want to think of this as record four they can. But to us, as Best Coast, this is our third record. This is something that we spent time on, that we tried to perfect as well as we could." Cosentino plans for the third album to arrive later this year, but not by Jewel City. "I think that we're probably going to end up going to a label to put it out. Labels have a way of making things happen. Because if I'm responsible for putting it out myself, I'm so scatterbrain that I would probably be like, 'Oops, the record, I forgot to put it out.'"
Cosentino and her bandmate, multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, recorded the new album with producer Wally Gagel at California's Wax Ltd Studios. "When I was writing for this record, I wanted to have a lot of the classic Best Coast elements, but I also wanted to have some stuff that would be like, 'Whoa, this is not something I expected to hear from them,'" Cosentino explains. "There are definitely a couple of songs that are about relationships and feelings and all of that kind of stuff... But every single song is not like, 'My relationship sucks.'" The album will have 12 tracks and includes a nearly seven-minute song that Cosentino describes as a "droney jam." Rattling off fresh song titles, Cosentino named "Sleep Won't Ever Come," "Jealousy," "When Will I Change?," and "Heaven Sent." As for influences, she named the Go-Go's, Gwen Stefani's "Cool," and, only kind of jokingly, "Sugar Ray."