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In early 2016, the release of put Rolling BlackoutsCoastal Fever on the map with glowing reviews from SPIN,Stereogum, and Pitchfork, praising them as stand-outs evenamong the fertile landcape of Melbourne music. Chock full ofsnappy riffs, spritely drumming and quick-witted wordplay, TalkTight was praised by Pitchfork “for the precision of theirmelodies, the streamlined sophistication of their arrangements, and the undercurrent of melancholy that motivates every note."
The band was born from late night jam sessions insinger/guitarist Fran Keaney’s bedroom and honed in thethrumming confines of Melbourne’s live music venues. Sharingtastes and songwriting duties, cousins Joe White and FranKeaney, brothers Tom and Joe Russo, and drummer MarcelTussie started out with softer, melody-focused songs. The moreshows they played, the more those driving rhythms that nowtrademark their songs emerged. Since then, Rolling BlackoutsCoastal Fever rode that wave from strength to strength. Touringaround the country on headline bills and festival slots all theway to BIGSOUND, the entrenched themselves with theirthrilling live shows while prepping their next release.
The French Press levels up on everything that made Talk Tightsuch an immediate draw. Multi-tracked melodies which curlaround one another, charging drums and addictive bass linesconverge to give each track its driving momentum. Honedthrough their live shows, this relentless energy carries the recordthrough new chapters in the band’s Australian storybook.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s songs have always had all thepage-turning qualities of a good yarn and The French Press is nodifferent. Somewhere between impressionists and fabulists,lyricists Fran Keaney, Tom Russo and Joe White often start withsomething rooted in real life – the melancholy of travel on‘French Press,’ having a hopeless crush on ‘Julie’s Place’ –before building them into clever, quick vignettes. The result islines blurred between fiction and reality – vibrant stories whichget closer at a particular truth than either could alone.
Blending critical insight and literate love songs, The FrenchPress cements Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever as one ofAustralia’s smartest working bands.
