Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

to the list of bands above want to add the excellent Odd Hope who are yanks not kiwis but I think fit very well and their new album is great, friend of mine put it out on Fruits & Flowers (a label worth checking out for ppl who like Rolling Blackouts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtdihNCNFE

Yes ODD HOPE’s debut LP is finally here bringing an immersive set of anglophile jangle & Midwest gloom. Primarily the work of Oakland’s Tim TInderholt, here aided & abetted by the post punk-ish Edmund Xavier of Horrid Red/Der TPK, this record will feed a Twin Tone/Glass Records mid-80s fix. There’s something incredibly catchy & vaguely ominous about Tim’s songs that is totally now, & crucial. Come on down if you want to.

New song. It’s great. The debut album comes out in June.

https://youtu.be/Zj5tH-6vNKY

You can pre-order now! https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/album/hope-downs

fuck yeah

oh boy

preordered!

I like what little I've heard so far!

Wiiiiide eeeeeyyyyes

great show in Seattle last night

good to know, I was thinking about seeing them Monday

Another KCRW show here...

http://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/morning-becomes-eclectic/rolling-blackouts-coastal-fever

Iwantyouiwantyouiwantyouiwant you

These guys are unfairly good. I hope they never write a slow song.

Saw them tonight. I've mostly seen metal shows the past decade but this was glorious. Three guitars, harmonies and alternating vocals. They were SO into it, nice to see a band that's not worn out or jaded yet. Before first encore the only place for them to go was outside (no backstage), where there were apocalyptic thunderstorms. They said it was "beautiful" but they'll just go ahead and get back to playing.

Nice! I'm going next week in Brooklyn. I can't wait.

They were so great. This band is ridiculously good.

New track last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2usB-nCwc

Seeing them in London tonight, v glad to hear good things about the live shows.

Have fun! I think you'll enjoy the show. Air Conditioned Man is yet another excellent song. It takes a couple listenings to sink in, but if it's any indication, the album will be great.

I unfortunately missed their DC show. Kinda jaded about rock bands, but like this group

"An Air Conditioned Man" is ridiculously compelling for some reason. Not sure I've ever before returned to a Youtube clip so many times in a week.

Yes they are very good.
Jnagle pop classic.

great guitarist too.

they have three great guitarists

https://www.subpop.com/news/2018/06/06/rolling_blackouts_coastal_fever_share_the_hammer_and_announce_us_tour_dates_hope_downs_out_next_week_on_sub_pop

So good and unpretentious.
The hooks,the melody,the guitars. Perfect.

The record is out and unsuprisingly it's great. AOTY as they say..

how can this band be so good

Yes..

The first e.p sounds like they've alredy been around for ages.

WHOOSH, this album is just so thrillingly fine. I have to see them live in October.

The album is good.

Good is this album

Oh man I can't wait!

Saw them in Camden last month and had been really excited but it really put me off them tbh. Dunno whether it was a heaving venue full of aussie blokes, but they felt a bit boorish, there was no space in the music, they almost felt like a jam band, patiently taking turns for their solos. Was hoping for something elliptical, cryptic to them, but the Go Betweens influence seems pretty superficial.

The album makes me think War on Drugs way more than Go Betweens and that wasn't the case with the earlier stuff.

and better than WOD!

I thought about WOD too. But RBCF are Better indeed. If only because they don't take themselves so seriously and don't suffer from pretentiousness.

These guys seem to have one too many band names in their band name(?)

first release was as Rolling Blackouts, but apparently an american band of the same name objected, so they added CF.

pissed i missed seeing them earlier this year. think i slightly prefer the first ep.

― mizzell, Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:26 AM (seven months ago)

They should’ve rebranded as the Rolling, I dunno, “Stones”

listening to the new one for the first time right now. initial thoughts: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - the best band since the smiths

Saw them in Camden last month and had been really excited but it really put me off them tbh. Dunno whether it was a heaving venue full of aussie blokes, but they felt a bit boorish, there was no space in the music, they almost felt like a jam band, patiently taking turns for their solos. Was hoping for something elliptical, cryptic to them, but the Go Betweens influence seems pretty superficial.

Will give this a spin though.

LOL. Two things can be true. We are all desperate for a good indie rock band, and RBCF would be fantastic no matter when they came out.

Really nice album, but two songs -"Talking Straight" and "Mainland" - are just 'amazing wowwow holy shit' good

This strikes me as a very “Sub Pop” band/record.

Surprised to be getting "Creation/Sarah/Subway/etc guitar bands circa 1987" sort of vibes from some of the new tracks.

It sounds like a slightly peppier Real Estate.

this is really good. i also noticed the real estate chord struck. fanatical midtempoism and maybe guitar tone. also similar, even when a couple of songs are inevitably slight or underwritten, they just sound good. first 5 songs are cap g Great, little spotty after that but still some keepers particularly the closer.

I came to the conclusion the e.p's were better

Same.

Don't get me wrong though- the record is pretty great. But...

Yeah EPs are better but they are still a great band and will make much more excellent music.

I wish Time In Common was longer. Definitely my favorite song on Hope Downs.

New single (In The Capital) is great

It's a grower. 'Watery' was certainly my impression way before reading this:

“I first had the idea for the melody and some of the lyrics when I was swimming. It’s taken a while to finish the song, to make it feel like the initial feeling. I can’t neatly describe it, but something like connection despite distance. I was thinking about transience and water and death and big cities and fishing towns and moon river.” - Fran Keaney

The other side of the single, just released, maintains a similar mood.

I sense that ILM has cooled a little on RBCF post-LP, but there's a new song! With trumpet (?) and choreography. Not sure what to make of it, but it took me months to decide I really liked both sides of that last single, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93J8FKmrn0

Not bad

..at all

new album announced and another track
https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/album/sideways-to-new-italy

It's about time for a Joe W song.

I like how they make 'strayah look ever more like a parched wasteland with each new video.

The first single was great. The 2nd and 3rd... :(

first song one the album is great. the 2nd one not so bad so far . . .

4-5 good songs, the rest didn't really click yet.
i like them when they are less mellow/mid tempo

Had no idea the album was out

They seem to get more tidy and 'pop' without necessarily bringing many actual hooks. Though all four of the previewed tracks (plus that opener) suddenly sound pretty good bundled together like this, so there's certainly hope for the remainder.

New album is a grower. They did better stuff before, yes, but this one is pretty good too

Yeah, I've been enjoying it.

Not sure why everyone is so down on it

I like it too. There's no song as singular as "French Press", but I think it's really strong.

I think because it is more mellow and mid tempo. And rhey are known for the opposite

Xpost

I resisted listening to this because it sounded like they were going in a direction I wouldn't like, but I checked out today and really liked it. It maybe has fewer hooks than the last one, but all the cool guitar layers and band interaction is absolutely there, and sounds great.

I tend to think of these guys as jangle shoegaze.

It's a disappointment. To my ears they've peaked already.

"She's There" has been running through my head most of the summer, such a great song.

New vid! Today! LP in May! etc, etc.

Not sure what I think of the second and third preview tracks

Tidal River
My Echo

If ILM has lost interest in this band then I sense, three listens in, that Endless Rooms will not be the LP to win folks back.

The second half remains an undifferentiated cloud of reverberating guitars and mostly moderate tempos. It's not unpleasant, at least. Admittedly their records rarely make much of an impression on me till 4 months later anyway. I mean, they'd largely unveiled the first half already and I've only just come around to "The Way it Shatters". Though having typed that, "Caught Low" and "Blue Eye Lake" are suddenly feeling like pretty immediate earworms, if hazy ones. I guess I'll try to decipher the lyrics in the fullness of time. Lucky they've virtually the only current guitar band I'm this persistent with lol!

This is quite illuminating:

https://www.stereogum.com/2185502/rolling-blackouts-coastal-fever-endless-rooms/interviews/footnotes-interview/

It's becoming one of my favourite sorts of the records. Ones where I have no idea whether I actually like it, but feel compelled to keep listening repeatedly in order definitively settle it. Maybe I'll arrive at an answer and then won't need to listen any more, either way lol. The haziness of the second half is kinda sorta appealing now, at least.

The Spotify algorithm keeps choosing "Julie's Place" and then the Twerps, when the album concludes, as if to illustrate that they don't actually sound especially like that song these days, nor terribly much like old-school Melb dole-wave etc.

I'm digging this one quite a bit. I can see what you are saying about the second half, but the first half sucks me in so thoroughly that I'm enjoying the ride.

Thanks for the link, I really want to hear the 8-minute version of "Open Up Your Window" though, that's one of my favorites.

these guys should really take up the art of the 10 minute jam

they have a number of songs that remind me of shoegaze with less volume and more jangle, they could totally lean into that