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Song #103: Talking Straight - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Guardian ~ Willow Willers #writephoto They had always been there or so everyone thought. Their faces weather beaten and sun dried over millennia.
ROLLING, ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER !
Ils ont tout pour nous plaire ceux-là… Signés chez Sub Pop, ce quintet de Melbourne a sorti un EP, French Press de fort bonne facture l’an passé. Les revoilà cette fois-ci avec un album qui rappelle, selon le très sérieux The Guardian, les The Go-Betweens et les groupes du label néo-zélandais Flying Nun. Et on ne peut pas lui donner tort.
Earworm.
My soundtrack while I write today! Okay, there are hundreds of songs on my playlist, but this is the best one to sum up the mood.
[[ GROOVES N JAMS S.O.T.Y. 2018 ]] [ nO. 6/50 ]
“Talking Straight” by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
MG:
A guitar solo! Pardon me while the tears of sweet relief flow. There are some things I could say that, despite being true, no one will believe. I’ll say them anyway. Guitar music is undoubtedly sounding better than it has in six or so years, but I didn’t spend that time pining for guitar music. Like anyone would, I will listen to whatever is good and I will enjoy it. I didn’t miss guitar music while it was gone but I’m relishing the return to life. “Talking Straight” sounds extremely alive -- vibrant, jangly, full of nonsense lyrics all the better to ignore. It’s the music I was raised on, and it will always be the most familiar and comfortable footstool to stumble over. I’m not advocating for receding into the deepest folds of your grey matter, but I am saying that I don’t think the old needs to die for the new to exist. We contain multitudes, we can have both. As for Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, I’m American, but it’s my opinion that this band is quintessentially Australian. Like the Go-Betweens or the Lucksmiths, there is always going to be something just slightly weird at play and that’s what will keep their music from veering into boring regurgitation. In the case of “Talking Straight,” it’s the guitar solo.
DV:
The main difference between Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and the classic Australian bands I love is Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever has managed some commercial success in the USA. Jangle pop remains a commercially unsuccessful subgenre of the commercially unsuccessful power pop genre here, and I’m not holding out hope they’ll be able to make it last. But I want to be wrong! Those chiming guitars are a sound MG and I both unabashedly love; I too would be thrilled to hear them catching even a toehold on the radio here. Rolling Blackouts have a way of balancing that propulsive, chugging rhythm with a nasal lead vocal delivery that moves easily between deadpan and languid, urgent and commanding. Time and again power pop have been subordinated into some other trend - new wave, grunge, alt rock, pop punk. Maybe now it’s finally time for the sound to have a well-earned moment.