Sidewalk Hustle

Aaaaawwww! I love the Shout Out Louds! The Swedish quin­tet make music that always touches my heart. Well here they go again with their lat­est offer­ing “Walls” off of their forth­com­ing third album Work.  Work is cur­rently being recorded and worked on in Seat­tle under the pro­duc­tion super­vi­sion of Phil Ek, best known for his work with Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Mod­est Mouse.  I enjoy this sin­gle, it is of the usual Shout Out Louds stan­dard of fun, and heart­felt rock, but seems to be tapered down, and stream­lined a touch under the super­vi­sion of Ek. Which is not nec­es­sar­ily a bad thing.  Take a look at the video, directed by Shout Out Louds bassist Ted Malm­ros (who has a pretty solid port­fo­lio of direc­to­r­ial cred­its includ­ing Lykke Li “I’m Good, I’ Gone,” and Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks”) and plays more like a behind-the-scenes doc­u­men­tary, then that of a music video.

Work will be release in early 2010.