Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

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

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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