Shout Out Louds are back with Our Ill Wills, the follow up to their debut album Howl Howl Gaff Gaff.Lead track Tonight I Have To Leave It is as close to The Cure’s Inbetween Days as its possible to be and the male vocal takes you by surprise and makes a nice change. There follows Parents Livingroom which is pleasant windswept Europop. Which is the way the album seems to be heading until the point when Bebban sings her first track, the delightful lolloping Blue Headlights.
This seems to kick start things and Impossible is grandiose like the Arcade Fire while maintaining their indie pop roots while Adam is still sounding like Robert Smith. After another dip things pick up again later with a jaunty little tune about losing your friends in an accident, called Time Left For Love.
A lot of the album reminds you of a legion of gentle sounding eighties bands, Prefab Sprout, Alphaville, The Kane Gang. And for this body swerve we can only applaud them, when they risk such derision but come up with the goods most of the time anyway.
Our Ill Wills is released on Weekender Records on May 12th.
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