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Byline: Lauren Waterman
We see ourselves as a gang," announces Adam Olenius, the lead singer and songwriter of a Stockholm-based indie-pop act called, perhaps misleadingly, the Shout Out Louds. The name-selected after the group discovered that their first choice, Luca Brasi, had already been claimed by another band-suggests a slightly brasher sound than is evident on their tuneful 2005 debut, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff. But in fact the Shout Out Louds eschew the over-the-top rock-star swagger of their countrymen the Hives in favor of heartfelt lyrics and beguiling melodies-as showcased on their lush new album, Our Ill Wills (Merge Records).
This latest salvo in what some critics have (only half jokingly) called a Scandinavian Invasion was produced with help from Bjorn Yttling, of fellow Swedish buzz band Peter Bjorn and John. If the quintet's array of instruments-guitar, bass, and drums, of course, but also Moog, xylophone, glockenspiel, and the ...