Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are back with ‘My Echo’, the third single from their forthcoming album Endless Rooms.
The track follows previous singles ‘The Way It Shatters’ and ‘Tidal River’ and was written during the depths of last year’s extended lockdowns in Melbourne.
“‘My Echo’ is about being surrounded by phone screens, computer screens, tv screens, paranoia and loss of time and place,” the band’s Fran Keaney said in a statement. “The album recording is pretty faithful to the very first rough recording. Most of Tom’s leads were improvised but they became the DNA of the song.”
The track is accompanied by a music video from longtime collaborator Nick Mckk. The band rock out in a darkened warehouse in the simple clip; at some points, huge papier-mâché masks are placed over their heads as they work through an extended guitar section.
RBCF announced their new album Endless Rooms in February. After birthing ideas initially during last year’s lockdowns, Endless Rooms came to fruition when the band decamped to a house in the bush a few hours outside of Melbourne on Taungurung and Yorta Yorta country. They felt so comfortable there that they decided to record the album and shoot the album cover there.
It’s almost an anti-concept album,” the band shared. “The Endless Rooms of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.”
Endless Rooms will be the third album from the five-piece, following their 2018 debut Hope Downs and 2020’s critically-acclaimed Sideways to New Italy. It’s also the band’s first self-produced album.
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Endless Rooms by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever will be released on Friday, May 6th 2022 and can be pre-ordered here.
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