The cool thing about being out of style is that it’s always kind of in style. Take power pop: everyone knows that Big Star was a commercial failure, but that didn’t stop Alex Chilton from being cool ’til the day he died.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever make out-of-style, dirty power pop out of Melbourne, Australia, and have a lot of promise to achieve rag-tag success in the same way that The Replacements were “successful.” Their debut release is almost out—we’ve already heard “Clean Slate” and “Wither With You”—and today they shared a video for the track “Write Back.” It’ll make you want to get in the car and drive to those Cabazon Dinosaurs out in Palm Springs.
Talk Tight is out March 25 on Ivy League.
(via Stereogum)
