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Debut album from Stockholm's garage-pop now-wave powerhouse, The Shout Out Louds. Fans of the new New Wave (Neo New Wave?) scene (Radio 4, Interpol, etc.) will love this record. In David Fricke's "Out There" column, he hypes the band's new album, gushing thusly: "This Swedish not-so-Sixties garage band pumps up the jangle with striking New Wave verve: tense, Strokes-like guitars; New Order-style keys; and a singer, guitarist Adam Olenius, who's got a hint of the Cure's Robert Smith in his yelp.