Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms

Endless Rooms is the third album from Melbourne quintet Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Fran Keaney, Tom Russo, and Joe White on guitars and vocals, Joe Russo (Tom's brother) on bass, and Marcel Tussie on drums. Initial ideas were traded online during Australia's strict lockdowns, but the album took shape during brief windows of freedom when the band decamped to a mud-brick lakeside house built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s, around two hours north of Melbourne. The acoustics and atmosphere of the house shaped the record so completely that they decided to record it there, it also appears on the cover. For the first time, the band self-produced alongside engineer and long-time collaborator Matt Duffy, resulting in their most expansive and naturalistic record yet. Where their 2018 debut Hope Downs fused melancholic jangle-pop with mid-80s US college rock, and Sideways to New Italy (2020) leaned brighter and catchier, Endless Rooms pushes further, bigger guitars, deeper emotional terrain, and a political undercurrent running beneath the romance. Released on Sub Pop / Ivy League in May 2022.