Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope DownsIt's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever'sHope 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

It's a curious

co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott

I’ve been in a band that simultaneously studied genre and also hats

finding ways to work together was challenging

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as Smith only expected to get a deal for a seven-inch record

Founding guitarist and songwriter Andy Gill has constructed a new Gang of Four for 'What Happens Nex't: John "Gaoler" Sterry on vocals

and Willis's lurid

Chalk some of the group's cunning chameleonic ability to Dwyer's fifteen-year resume

and pianist Alex Atterson

they decided to start 'Friends' under their own steam without the pressure of a deadline or a budget

much in the manner of the popular at the time Revolutionaries instrumentals such as MPLA