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It's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Hope Downs. To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would be an understatement: the promise those early releases hinted at is fully realized here, with ten songs of urgent, passionate guitar pop that elicit warm memories of bands past, from the Go-Betweens' jangle to the charmingly lo-fi trappings of New Zealand's Flying Nun label. But don't mistake Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever for nostalgists: Hope Downs is the sound of a band finding it's own collective voice.
TRACK CREDITS
-1.1 An Air Conditioned Man ^1.2 Talking Straight ^1.3 Mainland ^1.4 Time in Common ^1.5 Sister's Jeans ^1.6 Bellarine ^1.7 Cappuccino City ^1.8 Exclusive Grave ^1.9 How Long? ^1.10 The Hammer
