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Sideways to New Italy

By Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Sideways to New Italy Alternative & Indie

Sideways to New Italy

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After years spent looking out at landscapes and loved ones and an increasingly unstable world, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts and the places that inform them, on their second full-length, Sideways to New Italy. Led by singer-songwriter-guitarists Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, the guitar-pop five-piece returned home to Australia after the relentless touring schedule that came following their critically regarded 2018 debut Hope Downs. Feeling the literal and metaphorical ground under their feet had shifted, the band began grasping for something reliable. For Keaney, that translated into writing "pure romantic fiction" and consciously avoiding the temptation of angsty break-up songs, while Russo looked north to a " place" that captured the feeling of manufacturing a sense of home when his own had disappeared. The New Italy of the new album's title is a village near New South Wales' Northern Rivers - the area drummer Marcel Tussie is from. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it pit-stop of a place with fewer than 200 residents, it was founded by Venetian immigrants in the late-1800s and now serves as something of a living monument to Italians' contribution to Australia, with replica Roman stas dotted like alien souvenirs on the otherwise rural landscape.
Product details
Release Date:
2020-06-05
Number of Discs:
1
Publication Date:
2020-04-01
Publisher:
Sub Pop / Cargo
Languages:
Original: English
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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