Title: Hope Downs Artist: Rolling Blackouts C. F. Label: Sub Pop Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 098787122015 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2018-06-15 Number of Discs: 1
Vinyl LP pressing. It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would be an understatement: the promise those early releases hinted at is fully realized here, with ten songs of urgent, passionate guitar pop that elicit warm memories of bands past, from the Go-Betweens' jangle to the charmingly lo-fi trappings of New Zealand's Flying Nun label. But don't mistake Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever for nostalgists: Hope Downs is the sound of a band finding it's own collective voice.
Tracks: 1.1 An Air Conditioned Man 1.2 Talking Straight 1.3 Mainland 1.4 Time in Common 1.5 Sister's Jeans 2.1 Bellarine 2.2 Cappuccino City 2.3 Exclusive Grave 2.4 How Long? 2.5 The Hammer
