Shout Out Louds unveil details of upcoming album, air new video

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Swedish fivepiece Shout Out Louds have announced they will be releasing their fourth album, Optica, at the start of next year.

The record, which comes 10 years after their debut, will drop on at the end of February 2013.

Shout Out Louds said the following of the release:

“In our eagerness to please no one but ourselves this time around, we decided to take on the challenge of producing our own music for the first time ever. Our close friend and sound aficionado of choice Johannes Berglund and his studio in Stockholm presented us with an ideal package for the endeavor. A secluded work space close to home, but off the earth’s surface, a more than generous timeline, and the patient and brilliant sixth member we needed to get through the whole thing safely. Together we made up a downstairs world of explosive colors, big, warm sounds and a very, very uninhibited work process. We never worried about following a clear path, trusting that the conscious decision not to worry would be enough to lead us right, and that right doesn’t necessarily have to mean rational or even reasonable…We all set prestige and skillfulness aside in favor of experimentation and sheer gusto. That will probably come across live too. I don’t think we’ve ever been this excited to take an album on tour.”

The tracklisting is as below, with their new video for ‘Blue Ice’ beneath that:

Sugar
Illusions
Blue Ice
14th of July
Burn
Walking In Your Footsteps
Glasgow
Where You Come In
Hermila
Chasing the Sinking Sun
Circles
Destroy