Born from late night jam sessions in singer/guitarist Fran Keaney’s bedroom and honed in the thrumming confines of Melbourne’s live music venues, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever began to take shape as audiences got moving. Sharing tastes and songwriting duties, cousins Joe White and Fran Keaney, brothers Tom and Joe Russo, and drummer Marcel Tussie started out with softer, melody-focused songs. The more shows they played, the more those driving rhythms that now trademark their songs emerged. Since then, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever rode that wave from strength to strength. Touring around the country on headline bills and festival slots, they entrenched themselves with their thrilling live shows.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s songs have always had all the page-turning qualities of a good yarn. Somewhere between impressionists and fabulists, lyricists Keaney, Russo and White often start with something rooted in real life before building them into clever, quick vignettes. The result is lines blurred between fiction and reality – vibrant stories which get closer at a particular truth than either could alone.
In early 2016, the band released Talk Tight , their first EP. That effort put the group on the map with glowing reviews from SPIN, Stereogum, and Pitchfork, praising them as standouts even among the fertile landscape of Melbourne music scene. Chock full of snappy riffs, spritely drumming and quick-witted wordplay, Talk Tight was praised “for the precision of their melodies, the streamlined sophistication of their arrangements, and the undercurrent of melancholy that motivates every note.”
”Julies Place” is the first single off Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s forthcoming EP for Sub Pop, levels up on everything that made Talk Tight such an immediate draw.
“Julie’s Place” from the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever forthcoming EP due out Spring 2017
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