Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope DownsIt's rare that a band's debut album sounds as confident and self assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever'sHope 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

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with an estimated audience of 400k

and the immediacy of the occasion was part of the magic that day

who subsequently became a successful music journalist and manager of the Divinyls

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meaning that they can now give other bands a platform

If one were to go by the charts alone

It is a classic that stands head and shoulders above similar albums of the same date

But the most surprising thing about this album might be the fact that it's a debut

by modern standards

then that is a perfect sign for me