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.
Malmros: I always love to watch a film from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. Dark black-and-white stories always with an humoristic twist. Look for The Match Factory Girl or Drifting Clouds. He has a cool way of mixing film and music, and he usually has some great musical performances from the Finnish rockabilly scene mixed in without it being weird. Anything can happen, and no one shows any feeling. A must on a slushy April day.
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