![]() ![]() “But you don’t care, right?”Īfter only two verses, it quickly took a turn for the worse. In fact, it hadn’t even been rehearsed together. The song they played, however, had not been worked on in collaboration. He’s worked with them before, collaborating on “Coming Home,” featured on their most recent album, Reintegration Time. Pemberton, also known as Cadence Weapon, has recently moved to Montreal from Shout Out’s shared hometown of Edmonton. Mid-set, Shout Out’s invited a good friend of theirs, Rollie Pemberton, onstage. “Although we might not be winning them all over, at least the ones we win over are willing to come back after we pummel them,” laughed Will Zimmerman. Shout Out Out Out Out shows get so physical, a fan once broke his knee. “I stretch a tiny little bit before shows,” Kozub admitted, adding that even he never believes photos of especially audacious kicks he’s managed to pull off. The lyrics, in contrast to the hype beats, are dark and self-loathing, but who’s going to listen to lyrics when there’s high-kicking to be done? The melody is created by the robotic sound from any of Kozub’s three vocoders. The six members are divided into two sections: rhythm and bass. This expanded ten-fold when Shout Out Out Out Out took the stage. Song names are taken from sci-fi novels and dirty baselines are plentiful.įor both opening sets, the crowd participation could be described as active listening at best, with a small sprawl of dancers in the front. Naming is not a skill they wield well, nor like to do, so it bodes well for them that their songs are primarily instrumental, with the odd vocal loop. They did, however admit that the acronym stands for the original name, which they didn’t like after playing their first show. You gotta water it, nurture it, let it grow. “You have to dig,” insisted Jeffrey Addison. They immediately shrouded the origins of the band in mystery by admitting that their real band name is not something they want people to know. The second band, TMDP, are two DJs, who spin out electro-groove in a style not unlike Junior Boys. ![]() The four-piece, self-described as a “hot swag punk R&B disco” project, has been three years in the making, mixing and switching band members in search of “the perfect sound,” drummer Julian Slash explained. Nothing is similar to their current sound. The style of the first opener, Femme, cannot be ascertained from their MySpace page. It’s a fly by the seat of your pants attitude few bands can get away with, but they pull it off. They set up just before their set, rushed only by the impending metro closing time. There was a noticeable lack of equipment on stage for the two opening bands since Shout Out’s didn’t go through the obligatory sound check. “Everyone needs to squeeze in down here, this is where the show is!” ![]() The opportunities to watch Shout Out Louds can be few and far between, but it’s one you shouldn’t miss when the time comes.Shout Out Out Out Out always kick off a raging dance party, and with the first words out of front-man Nik Kozub’s mouth at Il Motore last Saturday night, he proved they haven’t missed a beat: The duo of songs to look out for are ‘Very Loud’, which barrels along on a brilliantly unstoppable beat, and The Smiths jangle of ‘Please Please Please’ on which Olenius sounds very much like Robert Smith (another Smith!), pleading irresistibly to the watching crowd. When the band plays live it tends to get slightly more raucous, the passion imbued in these songs spilling over into more loose renditions of familiar songs. Shout Out Louds don’t rush things (they take their time when recording albums, and their latest Optica is just album number four in over ten years) and their music is often pitched mid-tempo, allowing us to slowly be seduced by Olenius’ song writing. Adam Olenius and his band play music that’s a little folk pop, recalling a variety of 60s bands through his simple harmonies but also taking in darker influences – the main one being the music of The Cure. One band that doesn’t over complicate things is Shout Out Louds: they’ve been writing great indie pop songs since 2005’s Howl Howl Gaff Gaff with a casual brilliance that many bands would kill for. And there’s such a variety of bands too, approaching their writing through many different genres. Sweden: it’s definitely a country that produces band who know how to write a cracking pop song. ![]()
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