Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Share Video for New Song “Tidal River”
Endless Rooms Due Out May 6 via Sub Pop
Mar 02, 2022 By Mark Redfern Photography by Nick Mckk 
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Endless Rooms, on May 6 via Sub Pop. Now they are sharing its third single, “Tidal River,” via a video for it. Nick Mckk directed the video. Watch it below.
Tom Russo had this to say about the song in a press release: “‘Tidal River’ is a little snapshot of living in a place at a time when it feels like there is no-one at the wheel. If there were a complacency Olympics, Australia would win gold by a mile. In the ‘lucky country’, the luckiest ones jealously guard their fortune, as if it will disappear if they share it around. There is so much potential to do better, but it sometimes seems like progress is two steps forward, two steps back. Tidal River is located in what Europeans named Wilsons Promontory, where the river meets the ocean. It has great significance for the Gunai/Kurnai and Boonwurrung peoples, who call it Yiruk and Wamoon respectively. No matter the struggles and politics that go on, the river keeps churning into the sea.”
Previously Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever shared Endless Rooms’ first single, “The Way It Shatters,” via a video for it. “The Way It Shatters” was #1 on our Songs of the Week list.
The band features singer/songwriter/guitarists Tom Russo, Joe White, and Fran Keaney, as well as bassist Joe Russo and drummer Marcel Tussie.
Endless Rooms is the band’s third full-length and is the follow-up to 2020’s Sideways to New Italy and 2018’s debut album, Hope Downs, both of which also came out via Sub Pop. The album began with the band members trading ideas remotely during lockdown and it was recorded in “a mud-brick house in the bush around two hours north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s.” The lakeside house also appears on the album’s cover.
The band self-produced the record, working with engineer and collaborator Matt Duffy. “The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place; punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind,” stated a previous press release.
The band collectively added: “It’s almost an anti-concept album. 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.”
Read our interview with Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on Sideways to New Italy.
Read our review of Sideways to New Italy.
Hope Downs was our Album of the Week, one of our Top 100 Albums of 2018, and our #1 Debut Album of 2018.
Read our 2018 interview with Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Tour Dates:
Thu. Mar. 3 – Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
Fri. Mar. 4 – Hobart, AU @ Altar
Fri. Mar. 18 – Fremantle WA @ AU @ Freo Social
Fri. May 20 – Madrid, ES @ Tomavistas
Sun. May 22 – Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2 *
Mon. May 23 – Norwich, UK @ Waterfront *
Tue. May 24 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy *
Wed. May 25 – Bristol, UK @ Motion *
Thu. May 26 – Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed *
Sat. May 28 – Northampton, UK @ Roadmender *
Sun. May 29 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute *
Mon. May 30 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Irish Centre *
Tue. May 31 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz *
Thu. Jun. 2 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire *
Fri. Jun. 3 – Sheffield, UK @ The Foundry *
Sat. Jun. 4 – Glasgow, UK @ Queen Margaret Union *
Sun. Jun. 5 – Edinburgh, UK @ The Liquid Room *
Mon. Jun. 6 – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK @ Boiler Shop *
Wed. Jun. 8 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street *
Fri. Jun. 10 – Parque Da Cidade, BR @ Primavera Porto
Sat. Jun. 11 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Sun. Jun. 12 – Mannheim, DE @ Maifield Derby
Mon. Jun. 13 – Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia *
Wed. Jun. 15 – Bergen, NO @ Bergenfest
Thu. Jun. 16 – Oslo, NO @ John Dee *
Fri. Jun. 17 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset *
Sun. Jun. 19 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie *
Tue. Jun. 21 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Orangerie *
Wed. Jun. 22 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje *
Thu. Jun. 23 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso *
Fri. Jul. 22 – North Byron Parklands, AU @ Splendour In The Grass
Wed. Jul. 27 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Mon. Aug. 1 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
Tue. Aug. 2 – Montréal, QC @ L’Escogriffe Bar
Wed. Aug. 3 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Sat. Aug. 6 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sun. Aug. 7 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Mon. Aug. 8 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
Wed. Aug. 10 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal west
Fri. Aug. 12 – Austin, TX @ Empire
Sat. Aug. 13 – Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips
Mon. Aug. 15 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Tue. Aug. 16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Thu. Aug. 18 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Fri. Aug. 19 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
Sat. Aug. 20 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
Mon. Aug. 22 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
Tue. Aug. 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
* w/ Stella Donnelly supporting