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- Summary: The Swedish band releases its second album, produced by fellow Swede Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 20
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Mixed: 7 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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Say what you will about influences on sleeves, this is pop music at its best: nostalgic and angst-ridden, but ultimately life-affirming. Shout Out Louds have found a winning formula.
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The SOLs are skilled at crafting songs rooted in striking specificity.
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Our Ill Wills is an impressive, depressive album that could scare away all but their hardiest fans in one 48-minute swoop.
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Between them, Stenborg and Yttling ensure that Our Ill Wills doesn’t sink under the weight of Olenius’ unremitting melancholy or monochromatic tonalities.
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Our Ill Wills is a consistently stronger, more cohesive collection than its predecessor, and it positions Shout Out Louds as a more extroverted and more accessible contemporary to Arcade Fire and another recent example of the compelling pop music coming out of Sweden.
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Borrowing liberally and transparently from Bright Eyes, the Cure and mid-1960s chamber pop, the band sublimates familiar expressions of indie gloom with string flourishes and twinkling piano lines, giving Olenius both a shoulder to cry on and, in soaring songs like 'Tonight I Have to Leave It,' a source of joy.
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I don’t like it. I don’t hate it. And that’s the truth exactly.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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EoinGOct 26, 2007
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RodneyOOct 3, 2007"Our Ill Wills" delivers on the incredibly high standards set forth by the bands debut disc.
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