Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Releases a New Lead Single

The band ‘Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’ have announced their third album, ‘Endless Rooms’, and the new single is titled ‘The Way It Shatters’. 

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. 

The new album is about how ending up in your particular situation in life is the result of absolute randomness. When good luck is mistaken for a sense of pride in one’s self or their country, they become confused and deluded about what’s important. 

Nick Mckk, with whom the band previously worked said, “The new album has a night-time feeling, so we wanted to explore shooting the whole thing from sundown. 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. The attraction of light works as a narrative device, coaxing Joe into this house of memories, and back out again.”

Although they’ve never shied away from more story-based songwriting, the band has asserted that LP3 is “almost an anti-concept album”. On the background of the record’s title, the band noted that ‘Endless Rooms’ is a nod to their “love of creating worlds in their songs”, saying they approach each track as if it were “a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities”.

—Apeksha Priya