Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - She's There

What this video is

Released April 1, 2020 — in the opening weeks of global COVID-19 lockdowns — 'She's There' arrived as a lead single from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's second album Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop, June 5, 2020). The band, having returned to Melbourne after exhaustive international touring behind their 2018 debut Hope Downs, channelled themes of displacement, memory, and longing into both the album and its…

Why it matters

The video reinforces Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's position within the lineage of melodic Australian guitar-pop — traced by critics to the Go-Betweens, the Flying Nun label roster, and early R.E.M. — while demonstrating how the Sub Pop international indie network in the late 2010s amplified…

The director

Australian photographer and videographer (also credited as Nick Mckk), based in the Blue Mountains region west of Sydney. Known for a naturalistic, colour-intuitive visual style applied across music photography and music video direction. Directed and shot…