{"title":"Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolling Blackouts Coastal Fever is an indie rock band hailing from Melbourne, Australia. The band was formed in 2013 by Fran Keaney, Tom Russo (guitar\/vocals), and Joe Russo (bass guitar). Shortly after their formation, Joe White (guitar) and Marcel Tussie (drums) joined the group. With their unique sound and captivating performances, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever has quickly gained recognition in the music industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for their infectious melodies and energetic live shows, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever has become a force to be reckoned with in the indie rock scene. Their music combines elements of jangly guitars, catchy hooks, and introspective lyrics that resonate with listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince their inception, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever has released several critically acclaimed albums and EPs. Their debut album \"Hope Downs\" received widespread praise for its tight songwriting and heartfelt storytelling. The band's latest release \"Sideways to New Italy\" further solidifies their status as one of Australia's most exciting musical exports.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sideways-to-new-italy","title":"Sideways to New Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blog.roughtrade.com\/albums-of-the-year-2020\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbums Of The Year 2020 - #10\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso available:\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtrade.com\/gb\/rolling-blackouts-coastal-fever\/sideways-to-new-italy-demos\"\u003e Rough Trade Exclusive demos 12\"\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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, \u003ci\u003eSideways to New Italy\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eHope Downs\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeeling the literal and metaphorical ground under their feet had shifted, the band began grasping for something reliable. For Keaney, that translated into writing \"pure romantic fiction\" and consciously avoiding the temptation of angsty break-up songs, while Russo looked north to a \"bizarre place\" that captured the feeling of manufacturing a sense of home when his own had disappeared. The New Italy of the new album’s title is a village near New South Wales’ Northern Rivers – the area drummer Marcel Tussie is from. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it pit-stop of a place with fewer than 200 residents, it was founded by Venetian immigrants in the late-1800s and now serves as something of a living monument to Italians' contribution to Australia, with replica Roman statues dotted like alien souvenirs on the otherwise rural landscape. The parallels to the way the band attempted to maintain connections and create familiarity during their disorienting time on the road was apparent to Russo. \"These are the expressions of people trying to find a home somewhere alien: trying to create a utopia in a turbulent and imperfect world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe record's geographic identity emerged from the band losing their grip on their own, whether that was through the pressure of touring, the dissolution of relationships, a frustrating distance from their daily lives – or some combination of all three – that came from being slingshotted all over the world, playing sold-out headline tours and festivals including Coachella, Governors Ball, Primavera Sound, All Points East, and Pitchfork Music Festival. The notion of crafting, in Russo’s words, “a utopia of where your heart’s from,” permeates \u003ci\u003eSideways to New Italy\u003c\/i\u003e, in which early attempts at writing big, high-concept songs about The State of the World were abandoned in favour of love songs, and familiar voices and characters filter in and out, grounding the band's stories in their personal\u003cbr\u003ehistories. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Pop","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50442600546635,"sku":"1092080","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50442601136459,"sku":"1092081","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50442599760203,"sku":"1092082","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50442600153419,"sku":"1092077","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/30c654b9-f8f9-4e9f-b66f-30e358163c35_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727001461"},{"product_id":"hope-downs","title":"Hope Downs","description":"\u003cp\u003eRough Trade Albums of the Year 2018 No.5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRough Trade Exclusive. 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Described by the band – comprised of Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom Russo and Joe Russo – as them “Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together”, Endless Rooms stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere, its 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It's almost an anti-concept album,” say the band. “The ‘endless rooms’ of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. 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Touring around the country on headline bills and festival slots all the way to Bigsound, the entrenched themselves with their thrilling live shows while prepping their next release. \u003ci\u003eThe French Press \u003c\/i\u003elevels up on everything that made \u003ci\u003eTalk Tight\u003c\/i\u003e such an immediate draw. Multi-tracked melodies which curl around one another, charging drums and addictive bass lines converge to give each track its 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 \u003ci\u003eThe French Press\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFrench Press\u003c\/i\u003e, having a hopeless crush on \u003ci\u003eJulie’s Place\u003c\/i\u003e – 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. 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