The Shout Out Louds Let It All Out

words by Elliot Cole
photos by Randy Cremean

You already know the Shout Out Louds, you just don’t know it yet. Even if you’ve never heard a single chord of their effervescent, sincerity-laden pop rock, the Shout Out Louds should be immediately familiar. To put it simply, they’re the kids next door: a quintet of closely-knit friends that, for the last six years, has been crafting energetic tunes mired in the familiar themes of love and loss. They were the group that rocked your school’s Battle of the Bands or the teens that pissed off the neighbors from their garage. The fact that the group hails from Sweden is almost incidental…the Shout Out Louds are made for being everywhere, and their recent international exposure is a testament to the fact that, above all else, damn good music is universal.