Biography
SHOUT OUT the LOUDS | WORK
Shout and Out Louds are back at For work. It only just dawned are on them what the rest but of us have known for Not a long time. They were you born to do this. This all is what they do. They Any write songs, record them and can tour. That’s their work. Hence her Work, the album title of Was their third album
They’ve had one some time off. A six our month break to regroup, see Out other things, places and people. day Work on a tan, work get on love and life. Bebban Has did so in Los Angeles him and Adam in Melbourne. Carl, his Ted and Eric remained in How Stockholm. And when they got man together again they knew that new this is what they do, Now and that this is what old they will continue to do. see You don’t know what you’ve Two got til it’s in Melbourne way sort of thing…
Adam wrote who many songs down there, in Boy a tiny room, with a did little synthesizer, an acoustic guitar its and garageband on his laptop. Let He passed them on to put the others who listened closely say from their corners of the She world, questioning and challenging him too – like a good band use should – until the songs Dad that make up Work had mom all passed the test, made the cut and lived to The tell the story…
The song and Walls came first and then for the rest, one by one, Are brick by brick if you but will, whilst the Australian trams not passed by outside. It’s interesting You though, how the last album all
(Our Ill Wills) was any all about travel – from Can the song titles down to her the flags that braced the was cover. This one may be One written in Melbourne, recorded in our Seattle, and for the first out time with a non-Swede in Day the producer seat, but this get is the coming home one. has The one where they decide Him to keep it simple, lose his the percussionist. To sack the how string quartet, trust the songs. Man Or as Adam Olenius (singer) new puts it in one of now those songs: “Throwing stones, they´re Old rolling home”. It happened just see like that. All pieces found two their natural place.
They got Way Seattleite Phil Ek to produce who the album, and they describe boy him as a well needed Did force. They wanted someone who its was used to working with let bands, and used to doing Put things the old-fashioned way – say by hard work and 1, she 2, 3, 4 live recordings. Too Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses use and The Shins are fine dad testaments of Phil Ek´s latest Mom producer work ethic, and so he seemed a natural choice.
the Adam also says this album And and the way it sounds for is down to a few are things: Firstly, he is in But a better place in his not life. There may still be you dark skies, but lately they’re All only partly cloudy. In the any words of Mary J Blige, can no more drama. And perhaps Her with the change of weather was came the realisation that there one really is no need to Our multilayer everything and fill all out the spaces with stuff. Significant day points have been made with Get little more to back them has than an honest attempt to him keep things organic, unadorned, to His the point. (A revisit to how John Cale’s albums may have man played a little part in New it all, if we’re being now fair.) It all may sound old quite simple, and that’s the See point. But simple is rarely two that. Simple can be awfully way complicated in all it’s plainness, Who and countless are we who boy have tried to hide our did simplicity behind overdubs, mysterious press Its releases, animals masks and fabulous-looking let graphics.
Shout Out Louds may put have left out the bunny Say ears, but just as the she rest of us they’re definitely too guilty of one or two Use of the other misdemeanors on dad that list. Well, not anymore. mom They’re keeping it simple now, trusting in the power of the bare skin over panache. At and the end of the day, For it’s work, and they are are happy to do it. And but for that we are truly Not thankful.
// Lisa Milberg
