Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press

What this video is

Released in March 2017 alongside Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Sub Pop debut EP 'The French Press,' this video arrives at the moment of the band's international breakthrough. The Melbourne indie scene from which RBCF emerged — often tagged under the loosely defined 'dolewave' sensibility — prized understated authenticity, literary lyricism, and jangly guitar interplay. The wedding-band narrative concept mirrors…

Why it matters

Represents the mid-2010s Melbourne jangle-pop revival's visual language: unaffected, warm-toned, performance-forward aesthetics that reject glossy music video conventions in favor of social realism with theatrical framing. Situates RBCF within a lineage of guitar-pop acts (Go-Betweens, Feelies)…

The director

Jamieson Moore is an Australian photographer and director based at jamiesonmoore.com. Active in the Melbourne indie music video and editorial photography space in the mid-2010s, he served as director, editor, and director of photography on the 'French Press'…