Building Your Digital Utopia

On their second record, Sideways to New Italy, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts and the places that inform them. From a town in regional Australia that serves as a living relic to how immigrants brought a sense of home to an alien place, to the familiar Mediterranean statues that dot the front lawns of the Melbourne suburbs where the band members live, the inspiration for the record came from the attempts people make at crafting utopia in their backyard (while knowing there is no such thing as a clean slate).

Wolf Parade - Dan Boeckner, Spencer krug, and Arlen Thompson - will release thin mind, the group's fifth album for Sub Pop, on January 24th, 2020. The 10-track record was recorded by John good man son at risque disque on Vancouver Island, BC, mixed by good man son at bogroll Studios in Seattle, want, and mastered by Noah Mintz at lacquer Channel mastering in Toronto, on. Thin mind has sci-fi, post-apocalyptic and dystopian narratives interwoven throughout.