I think i read somewhere The Hammer is a Fran tune?!
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 July 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
there is a lot of consistency in style, i wonder if that's just the group dynamic homogenizing or whether one of them does the bulk of the composition and maybe gives tunes to the others for lyrics/vocals
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 12 July 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
No-one told me they dig Orange Juice! Bless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFhBK3vzBQ
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 31 August 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
hey that's sweet
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 31 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
Took me a few listens to finally click with the album which is unusual as I've always took an instant shine to their songs. The album feels a tad overproduced imo
― . (Michael B), Friday, 31 August 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
New single (In The Capital) is great
― nostormo, Saturday, 2 March 2019 07:18 (five years ago) link
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
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 8 March 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link
The other side of the single, just released, maintains a similar mood.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 28 April 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
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
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
Not bad
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 February 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
..at all
― nostormo, Sunday, 23 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
new album announced and another trackhttps://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/album/sideways-to-new-italy
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 07:38 (four years ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 08:19 (four years ago) link
The first single was great. The 2nd and 3rd... :(
― nostormo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
first song one the album is great. the 2nd one not so bad so far . . .
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 June 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
4-5 good songs, the rest didn't really click yet.i like them when they are less mellow/mid tempo
― nostormo, Friday, 5 June 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
Had no idea the album was out
― groovypanda, Friday, 5 June 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 5 June 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
New album is a grower. They did better stuff before, yes, but this one is pretty good too
― nostormo, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've been enjoying it.
Not sure why everyone is so down on it
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
I like it too. There's no song as singular as "French Press", but I think it's really strong.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
I think because it is more mellow and mid tempo. And rhey are known for the opposite
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― nostormo, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
It's a disappointment. To my ears they've peaked already.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
"She's There" has been running through my head most of the summer, such a great song.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
New vid! Today! LP in May! etc, etc.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 3 February 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link
Not sure what I think of the second and third preview tracks
Tidal RiverMy Echo
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 8 April 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
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!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 6 May 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 7 May 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
these guys should really take up the art of the 10 minute jam
― ufo, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
they have a number of songs that remind me of shoegaze with less volume and more jangle, they could totally lean into that
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link