A fundamental tune, capable of ripping your heart out, aching to head to the West Coast and call it home. Lana Del Rey showed the troubled relationships via sunny California and embracing the live free, die young slogan. Junior Empire use 'West Coast' as a calling card, even your own mother would want to pack the family sedan and head west. As cruel as it is, as Junior Empire debuts the lyrics associated with leaving the familiar to search for the unknown. All to common among us travelers searching for something more meaningful.
The production has a graveled mixture, perfect for the inconsistent thoughts that race within our minds. Junior Empire embrace the uncertainty and cater to the young of heart or the lost. Once the chorus breaks through, whether head-bopping or foot tapping is typcially your bodies reaction. The emotional pull juggles between wanting to drive towards the setting sun while thinking about someone you've lost or driving towards a destiny filled with palm trees, one preferably with your name etched on.
If you have ever taken a cross country road trip...this track will hit a soft spot. Because inside of each person is the need to head towards the sun, ready for adventure, loss, love and hopfully the answer we have all be searching for.
Wrapped up in a few minutes 'West Coast' puts on a brave face by becoming vunerable without drowning out any background beat. Everything comes together in harmony, as it should.
