Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Photo credit: Peter Ryle
Melbourne’s finest sons Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever announce details of their sophomore album and release a new single and video, Getintothis’ Matty Loughlin-Day has more info.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have revealed details of their highly anticipated second album, Sideways to New Italy.
Due on June 5 and released via Sub Pop Records, the band have marked the announcement by releasing a video for the album’s second single She’s There.
Largely written during their all-encompassing world tour, following the huge success of their debut album Hope Downs, the album finds the band expanding on their brand of indefatigable Australian guitar pop without straying too far from exactly what it was the world fell in love with in 2018.
Drums pound that bit harder and guitars chime that bit brighter and there’s not an ounce of fat on the tunes, evidenced by the first two singles from the album, Cars in Space and She’s There.
Discussing the album title, the band explain that New Italy is a village near New South Wales’s Northern Rivers – the area various band members are from.
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Described by the band as “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 souvenirs on the otherwise rural landscape.
The band explain their inspiration from the village, stating that much of the new album draws on the parallel between these remnants of home and the band’s own attempts to maintain connections and create familiarity during their disorienting time on the road. “These are the expressions of people trying to find home somewhere alien; trying to create utopia in a turbulent and imperfect world.” explains singer-songwriter Tom Russo.
Expanding on this, fellow band member Fran Keaney details “I felt completely rudderless on tour… it’s fun but you get to a point where you’re like, Who am I anymore? You feel like you’re everywhere and nowhere at the same time. And no one in particular.” Russo adds, “We saw a lot of the world, which was such a privilege, but it was kind of like looking through the window at other people’s lives, and then also reflecting on our own.”
Sideways To New Italy is the first new music from the band since 2019’s 7”, two-single release of In the Capital and Read my Mind which followed the band’s 2018 debut album, Hope Downs.
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy
Sideways to New Italy tracklisting:
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
Watch the video for She’s There below:
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