7.7
Avg Score
8
Opinions
#5,953
All Time
9
Tracks
“The Melbourne quintet prove you can go home again on their terrific sophomore album”
“Hope Downs, the debut full-length set by Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts CF, was one of the highlights of 2018: hook-laden jangling indie pushed along irresistibly by motorik rhythms. However, the road to eighth on the bill at an obscure festival is paved with the efforts of bands whose second albums failed to live up to their early promise, and while it is excellent in places, Sideways to ”
“Life is rarely straightforward – as we’ve all been reminded lately – and it’s even less so on the road. Pre-lockdown, Melbourne band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – singer-songwriters and guitarists Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney and bassist Joe Russo and drummer Marcel Tussie – spent 18 months on a gruelling world tour, and it seems that endless staring out of plane windows left them ques”
“A NOTE: LOUD AND QUIET IS IN DANGER OF CLOSING. PLEASE CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TO OUR MAGAZINE OR MAKING A SMALL DONATION HERE. THANK YOU. A little over 10,000 miles sideways of their native Italian province, there’s an age-old community of Venetian settlers who have long exemplified the phrase “a home away from home”. Occupying a small patch of land just shy of the New South Wales coastline, their ”
“The Melbourne quintet’s second album strolls through familiar territory with good guitar work and good songwriting that never quite peaks where it used to.”
“Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever bring it all back home on Sideways To New Italy”
