Title: Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Release date: 24 May, 2005
Record label: Capitol
Single: Very Loud
Official website: Shout Out Louds
Wikipedia: Shout Out Louds
Swedish indiepop faves Shout Out Louds now have much to shout about with a U.S. tour supporting the Futureheads...
... , a new EP and a full-length major label debut on the horizon, and now a confirmed performance at the 2005 Coachella Valley Music Festival.
Starting out as five old friend playing in a drafty Stockholm rehearsal space in 2002, Shout Out Louds gave their very first demos to a close friend who promptly started a record company to release them in Scandinavia. That led to tours throughout their native country, a series of singles, EP's and a passionately received album, cultivating a devoted international fan base along the way. They'll
now tour the U.S. supporting the Futureheads with a stop at South-by-Southwest and will release the new Very Loud EP in February and a full-length major label debut in May on Capitol Records.
Shout Out Louds have also been confirmed to perform at the 2005 Coachella Valley Music Festival in Indio, California on Sunday, May 1st.
The three-track Very Loud EP, which will be released in the U.S. on February 21st via Sweden's Bud Fox Recordings and available on the tour and at select stores, is the perfect introduction to the band's faceted, lovelorn indiepop. The title track, which burst from a CD sampler for Swedish music magazine Sonic to become a word of mouth hit, melodically captures the intensity promised by its title. And "But Then Again No" and "Wish I Was Dead" are both poignantly, sweetly melancholic.
The band's full-length debut, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff, originally released in Scandinavia by Bud Fox Recordings to immense acclaim, will be released by Capitol Records in the U.S. on May 24th. Instantly memorable, gloriously melodic, and with an anxious sense of longing throughout, the album's sound gleefully jangles, pulses and (yes) shouts its way right into your heart. Rolling Stone's David Fricke called it "taut, sweet and ripe for U.S.consumption."
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