Rolling Blackouts C. F. - Hope Downs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2020 . After years spent looking out at landscapes and loved ones and an increasingly unstable world, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts and the places that inform them, on their second full-length, Sideways to New Italy. Led by singer-songwriter-guitarists Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, the guitar-pop five-piece returned home to Australia after the relentless touring schedule that came following their critically regarded 2018 debut Hope Downs. Feeling the literal and metaphorical ground under their feet had shifted, the band began grasping for something reliable. The notion of crafting, in Russo's words, Incha utopia of where your heart's from,Inch permeates Sideways to New Italy, in which early attempts at writing big, high-concept songs about The State of the World were abandoned in favor of love songs, and familiar voices and characters filter in and out, grounding the band's stories in their personal histories. There's something comforting, too, in knowing the next time they're buffeted from stage to stage around the world, they'll be taking the voices of their loved ones with them, building a new totem of home no matter where they end up. Album Tracks 1. The Second of the First 2. Falling Thunder 3. She's There 4. Beautiful Steven 5. The Only One 6. Cars in Space 7. Cameo 8. Not Tonight 9. Sunglasses at the Wedding 10. The Cool Change

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with Endless Rooms, the Melbourne quintet's third album proper. Described by the band - comprised of Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom Russo and Joe Russo - as them InchDoing what we do best chasing down songs in a room togetherInch, Endless Rooms stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF. While initial ideas were traded online during long spells spent separated by lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which the band would decamp to a mud-brick house in the bush around 2hrs north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s. There, it's 12 tracks took shape, informed to such an extent by the acoustics and ambience of the rambling lakeside house that they decided to record the album there. The house also features on the album cover. For the first time, the band self-produced the record (alongside engineer, collaborator and old friend, Matt Duffy), creating their most naturalistic and expansive document yet. The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place; punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind. InchIt's almost an anti-concept album,Inch say the band. InchThe 'endless rooms' of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.Inch Album Tracks 1. Pearl Like You 2. Tidal River 3. The Way It Shatters 4. Caught Low 5. My Echo 6. Dive Deep 7. Open Up Your Window 8. Blue Eye Lake 9. Saw You at the Eastern Beach 10. Vanishing Dots 11. Endless Rooms 12. Bounce Off the Bottom

The French Press levels up on everything that made Talk Tight such an immediate draw. Multi-tracked melodies which curl around one another, charging drums and addictive bass lines converge to give each track it's driving momentum. Honed through their live shows, this relentless energy carries the record through new chapters in the band's Australian storybook. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's songs have always had all the page-turning qualities of a good yarn and The French Press is no different. Somewhere between impressionists and fabulists, lyricists Fran Keaney, Tom Russo and Joe White often start with something rooted in real life - the melancholy of travel on 'French Press,' having a hopeless crush on 'Julie's Place' - before building them into clever, quick vignettes. The result is lines blurred between fiction and reality - vibrant stories which get closer at a particular truth than either could alone. Blending critical insight and literate love songs, The French Press cements Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever as one of Australia's smartest working bands. Album Tracks 1. French Press 2. Julie's Place 3. Sick Bug 4. Colours Run 5. Dig Up 6. Fountain of Good Fortune