ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
The second album from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever begins with a moment of delayed gratification. About 10 seconds into its opening song, they string out a spidery riff, waiting for Marcel Tussie’s snappy snare and driving hi-hat to skate into view. Once they’re all in the same place, The Second Of The First kicks on towards the horizon. It sounds like summer and friendship and cold beers and long nights with nothing to do but talk shit and make plans.
With their 2018 debut LP , Rolling Blackouts followed up a brace of well-received EPs with a set of detailed jangle-pop sketches that they’ve filled in with lurid splashes of colour on its magnificent successor, . The Melbourne quintet – guitarist-vocalists Joe White, Tom Russo and Fran Keaney, bassist Joe Russo, and drummer Marcel Tussie – have loosened their vicelike grip on the breezy blueprints of their early work just a
