#Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

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308: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever // Hope Downs

Hope Downs Rolling Fevers Coastal Blackout 2018, Sub Pop (Bandcamp)

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, one of those borderline-insufferable indie rock names like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Two-Door Cinema Club that seems to confirm every negative stereotype about the genre in a single phrase, rolled into my life in the spring of 2018 and went into near constant rotation for a solid year before slipping almost entirely out of memory until I pulled this record off the shelf today. A Melbourne five-piece with three guitarists who all sing (and all sing kinda the same way), Rolling Fever Coastal Blackouts were owners of the most propulsive jangle of the late part of the decade, the kind of band who put wheels on your feet if you’re walking and wings on your wheels if you’re biking or driving. Absolute summer montagecore lads, and as I sink back into the grooves of their debut LP Hope Downs I’m won over all over again. Nearly any of these songs, with their mileage-eating consistency of four-through-the-floor pace and thousand-yard-stare affect that make three minutes sound like five or seven, could satisfyingly open or close the record or a show. 35 of said minutes is just the perfect amount to leave you balanced on a knife’s edge as to whether to play the whole thing over again if the record’s done and your errand isn’t. There’s an easy mastery of dynamics, the sense of just when to step in with a harmony to kick things up a notch—I’ve seldom heard a better set of these tricks than this record’s “Exclusive Grave.” Jangle pop’s a well-worn genre, so there are plenty of easy names to drop here (Aussie and otherwise), but I don’t think it’s needed—Rolling Coastal Fever Blackouts are a refinement rather than a revolution, but they’re a refinement of a sound that to me’s as necessary to the continuation of life as the song of those ancient monks who can’t stop chanting or the world’ll end. Probably only the spirit-freeing “Talking Straight” transcends Hope Downs’ confines to stand on its own as an enduring anthem, but within its environs, there’s a long ribbon of pleasure that can easily become a figure-eight if you let it.

308/365

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4/16/23.

Greg Brady and the Anchors are a Brisbane, Australia band that having been making great indie pop/rock music for a while (the Bandcamp page mentions 1990). Brady was the anchor of The Zebras. Micah and I were lucky enough to see them with Monnone Alone many years ago.

Bands like Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ducks Ltd. owe a debt to Greg Brady. Hopefully he's been afforded "legendary" status by the Australian indie music scene.

While "weights and measures" isn't quite the driving pop of The Zebras, it still jangles and hooks (listen to "janglepophub") its way into your heart. At times the music approximates the feel of Richard Davies.

[omegaradiowusb]

DECEMBER 17, 2022 (#338)

Spread Joy: “Ow” + “Contrition” (II) Pinch Points: “Reasons to Be Anxious” (Process) Unschooling: “Shopping On The Left Bank” (orphan track) Cheekface: “Pledge Drive” (Too Much To Ask) Bench Press: “More Than That” (A Split Between Friends 7") Foyer Red: “Pickles” (Zigzag Wombat) Body Type: “Bouyancy” (Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising) Class: “Pills On A Dish” (self-titled) Mind Shrine: “Pocket Change” (Is It You?) Fake Palms: “Visions” (Lemons) Dry Cleaning: “Anna Calls From The Attic” + “Gary Ashby” (Stumpwork) Palm: “Feathers” (Nicks And Grazes) Emma Ruth Rundle: “Pump Organ Song” (Orpheus Looking Back) My Idea: “Breathe You” (Cry MFER) Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: “Chocolate Hills” (Texas Moon) Fontaines D.C.: “I Love You” (Skinty Fia) Antonio Sanchez f. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: “I Think We’re Past That Now” (Shift: Bad Hombre Vol. II) Wet Leg: “Material Girl” (orphan track) Tess Parks: “Brexit At Tiffany’s” (And Those Who Were Seen Dancing) Camp Cope: “Blue” (Running With The Hurricane) Girlpool: “Faultline” (Forgiveness) Sinead O'Brien: “Like Culture” (Time Bend And Break The Bower) Drug Church: “Someday I Suppose” (Pure Noise Dead Formats compilation) Preoccupations: “Ricochet” (Arrangements) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: “The Way It Shatters” (Endless Rooms) Fusilier: “No Words” (Treason) Caroline Polachek: “Billions” (Desire, I Want to Turn Into You) Erasers: “Easy To See” (Easy To See) Kite: “Bocelli” (single) SRSQ: “Used To Love” (Ever Crashing)

With three more shows to go in the calendar year, Omega WUSB holds its annual end-of-the-year Winners broadcasts: two nights showcasing the best, notable, and most talked-about sounds of 2022. On our way of saying good-bye forever to 2022, Night One showcases our best and favorite plays in indie, d.i.y., and other sounds in these past twelve months.

We continue our Winners Of… series in two weeks on New Year’s Eve, 2022 as we play our favorites of the year in hardcore, noise rock, metalcore, hip-hop, and darkness. Stay tuned.

December 27, 2022 (4PM New York City): bonus Omega

December 31, 2022 (10PM New York City): Winners of 2022 II

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Rob Perry Best of 2022

Rob Perry Best of 2022

Every year we ask some of our music friends to share some of their thoughts on some of the albums/singles that were released in the past year. Our good friend, fellow Connells fan, thoughtful social media user, and one of the most ardent new music fans Rob Perry agreed to share his thoughts about new music from the past year. 2022, for me, has been a year in that I got to get back out into the…

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And in my head I tell myself: It's all just a necessary evil 🤷‍♀️

The Way It Shatters - Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever

(edit, this spotify preview is shit. listen to the whole thing lol)

[tuuneoftheday]

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Way It Shatters

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NOS Primavera Sound 2022 - Dia 2

E ao segundo dia, a boa pop saltitante de Beck e o icónico regresso dos Pavement. Mas houve mais: tirámos o chapéu a King Krule e fizemos a devida vénia aos Montanhas Azuis.

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Live Show Review: 7/28, Schubas, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Melbourne jangle pop band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever could have probably made retreads of their first two EPs and debut LP and been successful. But with 2020′s Sideways to New Italy and May’s Endless Rooms (Sub Pop), they’ve slowly shown their ability to slow it down without sacrificing the hooks. Specifically, Thursday night, during a Lollapalooza aftershow at Schubas, they played a remarkable nine songs in a row from their two most recent albums, proving to the crowd they don’t need to rest on the laurels of the tunes that made them break out. Instead, they relied on their newfound versatility. Following the bouncy “Mainland” was “Dive Deep”, a slow and slinky highlight from Endless Rooms, a careful, but steadfast statement of love and dedication. With a similar sentiment but a harder charge was the next track, “Blue Eye Lake”. The performance exemplified the band’s ability to weave thematic and narrative threads in a set just like they do on their albums: cohesively, yet with the ups and downs that make for a good journey.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are still at their most thrilling when their songs build up, layer upon layer, with slight increases in volume and/or tempo. From opening song “An Air Conditioned Man” and the wondering “Cameo” to the speedy “Cars In Space”, Tom Russo and Joe White’s electric and Fran Keaney’s acoustic guitars intersected and then ricocheted off each other, all while bassist Joe Russo and drummer Marcel Tussie provided a steady base. To this point, the band may always end their set with “Fountain of Good Fortune” and “French Press”, the two songs that perhaps best demonstrate the “formula” that first wormed its way into the ears of everyone from Flying Nun aficionados to R.E.M. diehards. And as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever continue to explore new territory, The French Press songs aren’t bad victory laps to ultimately fall back on.

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Another great one from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s “Dive Deep”

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"Julie's Place" by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

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