The Shout Out Louds hail from Stockholm, Sweden, where, I would guess, it’s often dark and cold. Consequently, this album has a melancholy charm to it.
Opening track “1999” is a hopeful anthem sporting a decent tempo and chorus. “Candle Burned Out” starts out slow with a steady floor tom and Beach Boys-y guitar and then builds into a multilayered orchestration.
Nearly every song on Work could fit on almost any boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl-back soundtrack. It's elegantly simple in its structure, yet far from boring.
Singer Adam Olenius has a voice that was meant for pop music. I hear Robert Smith, Tony Lewis, and fellow Swede Morten Harket of a-ha, all rolled into a tasty albeit depressed tone.
Wikipedia defines the Shout Out Louds as “twee.” That may be a fair estimation. Still, Work fits in my music collection. Got it alongside Rancid and Beethoven.
The Shout Out Louds hail from Stockholm, Sweden, where, I would guess, it’s often dark and cold. Consequently, this album has a melancholy charm to it.
Opening track “1999” is a hopeful anthem sporting a decent tempo and chorus. “Candle Burned Out” starts out slow with a steady floor tom and Beach Boys-y guitar and then builds into a multilayered orchestration.
Nearly every song on Work could fit on almost any boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl-back soundtrack. It's elegantly simple in its structure, yet far from boring.
Singer Adam Olenius has a voice that was meant for pop music. I hear Robert Smith, Tony Lewis, and fellow Swede Morten Harket of a-ha, all rolled into a tasty albeit depressed tone.
Wikipedia defines the Shout Out Louds as “twee.” That may be a fair estimation. Still, Work fits in my music collection. Got it alongside Rancid and Beethoven.