Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's 'Sideways to New Italy' might be the best guitar record of 2020 so far. Read our review
It’s always fun to witness a band grow into how great they can be right in front of your eyes, and that’s exactly what happens with the second album from Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever. On their excellent 2018 debut LP,, these Australian guitar romantics proved themselves to be must-hear masters of Eighties college-rock scholarship.
The band is in love with the hypnotic rush of a nice sunny jangle, but they never settle for catchy drones.Marcel Tussie gives tunes like “Cars in Space,” “The Second of the First,” and the pre-breakup banger “She’s There” a combustible urgency that’s rare for music this textured and relatively twee.
No matter which genre they touch on, it’s always done at its brightest and most optimistic-sounding — from the radiant New Wave bounce of “The Only One” to the way “The Cool Change” recalls the post-R.E.M. ear-candy of Let’s Active and Game Theory, to how “Sunglasses At the Wedding” suggests Belle & Sebastian if they came from somewhere where it almost never rains.
Listen beyond the glistening exteriors and you’ll hear the old story of indecisive twentysomethings searching beyond their native ambivalence to find moments of meaning and beauty — whether it’s in the everyday wonder of “liquid crystal city elation,” the sweet feeling of summer rain, or the early days of a new relationship. “We’re changing with the seasons,” they note on “Falling Thunder,” as if they’re the first band that ever came upon such a conceptual possibility.
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