The Melbourne band get fresh indie rock from familiar sounds on their intoxicating debut albumEqual parts thrilling and wistfully melancholic,Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are that rare beast: a band capable of breathing excitement back into a too often uninspiring indie scene. While the individual elements of their sound - the melodic nous of their compatriots the Go-Betweens, the dynamism of the Strokes before they went nonsense, and the jangle of 1980s-vintage Flying Nun – are nothing original,it’s been a long time since they have been whipped up into such a fresh-sounding confection.
Their full-length debut, Hope Downs, and is released this week and represents a enormous leap forward from last year’s already impressive French Press EP. Guitar lines from their three singer-songwriters,Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, or interweave and interlock more intoxicatingly,like a turbo-charged Television - most notably on kinetic opener An Air Conditioned Man and recent single Talking Straight - and there’s a greater urgency to the delivery throughout.
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Source: theguardian.com