SIDEWAYS TO NEW ITALY

2020 release. 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. The notion of crafting in Russo s words a utopia of where your heart s from permeates Sideways to New Italy in which early attempts at writing big high-concept songs about The State of the World were abandoned in favor of love songs and familiar voices and characters filter in and out grounding the band s stories in their personal histories. There s something comforting too in knowing the next time they re buffeted from stage to stage around the world they ll be taking the voices of their loved ones with them building a new totem of home no matter where they end up.