Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: "It feels like a being teenager again"

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have become an indie sensation after releasing their debut album, 'Hope Downs', in 2018. Their refreshing spin on the genre, dressing up the mastered guitar work in breezy lyrics, saw many fall in love with their laid-back Aussie beats. Now, after months of studio silence, they've resurfaced with two groovy singles and an album - second LP, 'Sideways To New Italy'.

Though it's never a highway all the way through - especially when your drummer wrecks his leg while playing football. "Marcel injured his leg," co-vocalist Joe White explains. "Just before we started touring last year in May, he needed to have an operation, but he couldn't actually get a proper one until he finished touring - then until we finished recording the album."

So he suffered through it and out of the pain, past experiences and current passions, the new album was born. 'Sideways To New Italy' is named after an enigmatic town in New South Wales in Australia that built by a handful of Italian immigrants. It struck a chord with them as a weird way of reaching home.

While lyrically, it's an open dialogue with their inner, probably more mature, selves, constructed of smooth, poem-like lines, the instrumental gets more of a kick than their debut. "Really sure of itself like the way that The Clash are really sure of themselves in everything they do. That kind of attitude we were trying to bring into it. Also exploring different rhythms and approaches to the drums which led us onto Talking Heads' kind of path," they say on the main influences.