7.2
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#24,470
All Time
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“Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s latest record ‘Endless Rooms’ started to percolate two years ago, during the 2020 lockdown. With live shows cancelled and everyone stuck at home, the Melbourne quintet started working on new material, sharing ideas between themselves, and leaning into new sounds. But an isolated pandemic project, this is not. As soon as they could, the band decamped to a secluded ”
“Still drawing from the canon of jangly, guitar-centric 1980s college rock, the Melbourne band’s latest infuses the easygoing vibe with nuanced political songwriting.”
“There is a specificity when it comes to Australian indie rock: a signature sound, a particular mix of dry sarcasm and jangling guitars present in everything from the Go-Betweens onwards. The so-called dolewave scene of contemporary Melbourne is this lineage’s latest incarnation, with songwriting royalty like Courtney Barnett and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever counted among its alumni. With their”