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- Summary: Self-produced (with some help from Johannes Berglund) by the band, the fourth release for the Swedish indie pop five piece was recorded over a year and half.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Swedish Pop/Rock
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Top Track
| Walking in Your Footsteps | |
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| It's where I'm coming from It's where you're going In a dark tunnel, blindfolded It's where you leave your home And I follow the steps into your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 6 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Feb 26, 2013Some Shout Out Louds songs are merely pleasant, but others--like Optica’s “14th Of July”--are a real rush, building from stinging art-funk to choruses that erupt, spectacularly.
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Alternative PressFeb 26, 2013It might not be Disintegration, but Optica confirms these Swedes as worthy acolytes. [Mar 2013, p.93]
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Mar 28, 2013Another collection of pop spells that beguile...here’s to at least 10 more years.
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Feb 27, 2013Shout Out Louds have produced a great, light-hearted and warm album that will lift your spirits, mellow you out and make you dance.
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Feb 27, 2013The better they’ve gotten at refining their craft, at writing the perfect chorus and combining them seamlessly with organic, vivid sonics, the further away they’ve gotten from the wounded empathy that drove their earlier records. At least ice burns. Optica too often feels like nothing at all.
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May 9, 2013In the end, it’s all a little too demure to really shout out loud about.
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Mar 8, 2013The songs on Optica are a second, more confident assertion of this workmanlike incarnation of the band, but they still feel impermeable.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Mar 5, 2013
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