Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever announce third album with lead single ‘The Way It Shatters’
nme.comRolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced their third studio album, ‘Endless Rooms’, by way of a jaunty new single titled ‘The Way It Shatters’.Released today (February 3), the new song shines with jangly, layered guitars, snappy drum fills and soaring vocal melodies.
Despite its lively sonics, however, ‘The Way It Shatters’ reigns with dark lyrical undertones. So goes the chorus: “It’s desolation by rote / All around your home / If you were in the boat / Would you turn the other way?
Lost in a magazine town / It’s all falling up again / And in my head, I tell myself / It’s all just a necessary evil.”The track arrives with a music video helmed by Nick Mckk, with whom the band had previously worked on the clips for ‘Sideways To New Italy’ cuts ‘Cameo’, ‘Cars In Space’ and ‘She’s There’.
It taps into the album’s darker themes, Mckk said in a press release, expounding on the Groundhog Day-inspired concept.“The new album has a night time feeling, so we wanted to explore shooting the whole thing from sundown,” he said. “Fran [Keaney, vocals/guitar] had the idea of revisiting memories, of resetting groundhog day style, but each time we come back the world is a little different.
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