AUSTRALIAN outfit Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are back with an emphatic new single ‘Tidal River’.
With their new album ‘Endless Rooms’ out in May, the band have followed up last month’s ‘The Way It Shatters’ with this latest preview track.
A track that works on more than one level, they balance their immediate rush of guitar-pop with social commentary on Australian society, picking apart different injustices and ignorance towards the environment. Chaotic yet potent, it’s a track that goes off on many wiry, guitar-driven tangent but they have us hooked from the outset.
They say of the track, “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.
Photo by Nick Mckk
