Month: April 2010

Not long after the release of their second album, 2007’s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. However, despite the distance, it wasn’t long before Olenius was writing new material and sending it out to his bandmates, who all contributed from their remote locations. As a result, the quintet has returned with a fresh, simple sound on third full-length Work (out now on Merge), which the band is currently supporting on a tour of North America and Europe. Shout Out Louds will be guest-editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with Olenius and our 2007 feature on the band.

Olenius: Ordering seafood platters in Sweden is very, very expensive, and all you get is a few shrimp and some sad-looking oysters on a bed of ice. Claypots, a seafood restaurant in Melbourne, has the best warm seafood platter there is. You can get mud crab, crab legs, grilled prawns and other stuff that lives underwater cooked in ginger and garlic. It’s fuking brilliant! And you can bring your own wine. In Sweden, that will never happen until Venice drowns.

Video after the jump.

Not long after the release of their second album, 2007’s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. However, despite the distance, it wasn’t long before Olenius was writing new material and sending it out to his bandmates, who all contributed from their remote locations. As a result, the quintet has returned with a fresh, simple sound on third full-length Work (out now on Merge), which the band is currently supporting on a tour of North America and Europe. Shout Out Louds will be guest-editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with Olenius and our 2007 feature on the band.

Von Arbin: Henrik Nygren is one of Sweden’s top graphic designers. I once applied for a position at his firm. The job interview felt good, but I don’t know what went wrong—I didn’t get the job. During the interview, Henrik asked me to sign a CD I made for him, then he signed a book for me in return. I liked that book and hope he liked the record. I still would like to work together with him someday. A nice chap!

Video after the jump.