SHOUT OUT LOUDS TO RELEASE WORK ON FEBRUARY 23, 2010 FIRST TRACK AND VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD NOW PLAYING ALBUM-RELEASE SHOW IN BROOKLYN MARCH 1ST

SHOUT OUT LOUDS TO RELEASE WORK ON FEBRUARY 23, 2010 FIRST TRACK AND VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD NOW PLAYING ALBUM-RELEASE SHOW IN BROOKLYN MARCH 1ST

Merge Records is excited to announce that Sweden’s Shout Out Louds will be releasing their new record, entitled Work, on February 23, 2010. Work is the band’s third album and second for Merge. It was recorded in Seattle and produced by Phil Ek (The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses). The band has made a song from the record available for free download at the link below. The song is called “Walls.”

The video for “Walls” can be seen here:

After a year of touring behind their acclaimed second record, Our Ill Wills, the band went their separate ways — singer/main songwriter Adam Olenius to Melbourne, Australia, keyboard/vocalist Bebban Stenborg to Los Angeles, drummer Eric Edman, bassist Ted Malmros and guitarist Carl von Arbin back to Stockholm – and took a much needed break. Olenius wrote many of the new songs in Australia in a tiny room, with a little synthesizer, an acoustic guitar and garageband on his laptop. He passed them on to the others who listened closely from their corners of the world, questioning and challenging him until the songs that make up Work had all passed the test.

“Walls” came first and then the rest. It’s interesting that Our Ill Wills was written at home but is all about travel while Work, written on the road with a non-Swede in the producer seat for the first time, is all about home. For the songs on Work, the band stripped their sound down, lost the percussionist and string section and kept things organic, unadorned and to the point.

Shout Out Louds will be playing a special album-release show at the Music Hall of Williamsburgh in Brooklyn, New York, on March 1st. They will be touring for most of 2010. More tour dates will be announced shortly.