The Shout Out Louds brings ‘House’ music to Boston tour stop

In their two decades as a band, the Swedish quintet the Shout Out Louds have perfected a mix of soaring pop melodies with haunting, melancholy undertones. And certainly, there is one thing particularly Swedish about that.

“I feel every single Swedish band has some ABBA in them somewhere,” singer/guitarist Adam Olenius claimed this 7 days. “They have all all those melodies, but there is some thing bittersweet in them — I normally preferred that. If you glimpse at this band, we’re not a depressing bunch. But I’ve usually been drawn to the melancholy I’m confident that came straight to me when I started crafting songs and the band bought together. I adore that line among a little something sounding unhappy, and there being some hope– If you hear to the (Beach Boys’) Pet Sounds album, those people tunes are stunning but genuinely sad, also. And that will come by natural means to me when I get started placing terms down — I have a challenge creating joyful tracks.”

The band is now on its to start with US tour considering that 2017, which wraps up Wednesday May possibly 18 at Brighton Audio Hall. They’ll have a new album, “House” to attract from. Just one fascinating point about the album is that it seems like explicitly about the pandemic– the first solitary, “As Significantly Absent as Attainable,” voices a acquainted shutdown sentiment — nevertheless it was all composed and recorded beforehand.

“I was Nostradamus on that just one,” Olenius claimed. “And it’s unusual, because the only concept we had for the album was that we desired it to be extremely local. When we were being rehearsing, we commenced contemplating about the walks we took to the studio, the walks with our youngsters, going to the bar and dwelling in the small bubble we were being in. I typically create about traveling, so this time I experimented with to focus on the room around me.”

In point, the album will make the spot sound rather inviting — so why the require to get significantly away? “Maybe I wrote that on a dim Swedish winter season day. But it wasn’t so substantially about me individually, just a mix of good friends around me who are not content exactly where they are. You can adore the town where by you reside, but you’ll constantly know a whole lot of dreamers.”

Generally pegged as an ‘80s influenced band, the Shout Out Louds performed into that with the protect art for “House,” styled soon after a vintage cassette. “Bjorn [their producer Bjorn Yitting, of the group Peter Bjorn & John] essentially located his old Sade cassette, so we made use of that even although it is a diverse type of music. It seemed to go well with the album, considering the fact that we required to make it far more raw, with every instrument possessing its personal house.” Just one of the singles, “High as a Kite,” also has a acquainted ring, due to the fact the guitar intro is notably Vehicles-like. “I do love that band, but I hadn’t believed of that,” Olenius said. “To me it seems extra like an indie-pop band striving to be AC/DC.”

He said there’s a payoff to holding the similar lineup jointly for 20 many years. “We’re in all probability faster in our conclusions, and extra very clear about what we want. And right after the past two many years, we know that we can get through stuff. We’re accomplishing more compact golf equipment on this tour, but everyone’s energized to be out again. But we had been also very good good friends ahead of the band, so in a way very little has actually altered.”