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August 11, 2007
CD Review: The Shout Out Louds 'Tonight I Have To Leave It' EP
Artist: The Shout Out Louds
Album: Tonight I Have To Leave It (EP)
Release Date: July 2007
Label: Merge Records
If you missed the Shout Out Louds at the El Rey during their whirlwind pass through LA in mid-July you should definitely check out the EP they were touring to support. Basically the release is a glorified CD single with 3 versions of 'Tonight I Have To Leave It' (including a Russian Futurists remix, sadly repetitive, and a Kleerup remix which was a pretty darn good technoification of the tune). But wait, there's more: two other tracks on the EP are 'Don't Get Yourself Involved' which existing Shout Out Louds fans will enjoy but wasn't a groundbreaker for me, and a really fantastic Pogues cover, 'Streams of Whiskey'. Between the title track and the Pogues cover I was really enamoured by the group of Swedes.
'Tonight I Have To Leave It' (video featured above) is very reminiscent of the Cure's 'In Between Days' with some crazy cowbell/bottle rhythm track setting it apart. These guys seem like a lot of fun, I will definitely check out their album, Our Ill Wills, when it comes out in September and I will be on top of reporting when they hit LA during their October tour. In the meantime, I highly recommend the EP as a holdover.
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Pshh, I already have Our Ill Wills and I love it. This should've been released earlier as it's a real "summer album." It's already out in Europe.
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I hate to be a kill-joy but that song is WAY too much like The Cure. When I first heard it on the radio, my reaction was "Are they kidding??"
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The drum fill is very very like 'In Between Days' but the bridge is very different as are their other songs. I don't think it's a bad thing to have a track that sounds like a neo-classic's just as long as they all don't sound the same.
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Hmm... I could just be irritated because I just saw The Mighty One Ninety last week and they played a song that sounded exactly like "Pictures of You."