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Shout Out Louds released Our Ill Wills in Italy on January 28 via Homesleep Records, and have booked a European tour lasting from now till the end of April.

Shout Out Louds have taken their time to release their latest disc in various nations, concurring the release dates with extensive tours. Thus far Our Ill Wills has been released in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. To back this up, Shout Out Louds toured North America, Japan, Scandinavia, Australia, and around Europe.

“2007 was fun fun fun. Our second album ‘OUR ILL WILLS’ was released almost everywhere and we played almost everywhere. First time in Japan and fifth time in Canada. We would like to thank everyone who came to our shows this year and all the kind words. We will continue to travel the world next year. See you there!”

This Stockholm band will be releasing Our Ill Wills in UK, Spain, Holland, Belgium and France over the next few months. Shout Out Louds will continue touring around the world; another North American tour is in the works, along with Festival appearances.

1 February - Bremen (DE) - Schuppen 2 (+Dag för Dag)
2 February - Potsdam (DE) - Waschhaus (+Dag för Dag)
9 March - Pompano Beach, FL (US) - Langerado Music Festival
11 March - New York City (US) - Joe´s Pub (Show at 21.30)
11 March - New York City (US) - Joe´s Pub (Show at 23.30)
25 March - Milan (IT) - Casa 139
26 March - Lisabon (PT) - Aula Magna
27 March - Rome (IT) - Circolo degli Artisti
28 March - Bologna (IT) - Il Covo
29 March - Torino (IT) - Spazio 211
1 April - Paris (FR) - La Boule Noire
2 April - Madrid (ES) - Moby Dick
3 April - Barcelona (ES) - Razzmatazz3
5 April - Leeds (UK) - The Cockpit (+The Brunettes)
6 April - Newcastle (UK) - Carling Academy 2 (+The Brunettes)
7 April - Belfast (UK) - Speakeasy (+The Brunettes)
8 April - Dublin (IE) - Whelans (+The Brunettes)
9 April - Glasgow (UK) - Kings Tuts (+The Brunettes)
10 April - London (UK) **NEW VENUE** - Bush Hall (+The Brunettes)
11 April - Manchester (UK) - Ruby (+The Brunettes)
12 April - Rotterdam (NL) - Motel Mozaique Festival
13 April - Amsterdam (NL) - Paradiso (+The Brunettes)
27 April - Indio, CA (US) - Coachella Festival

10. Rosie Thomas - These Friends of Mine
Just as the title portrays, you feel as though you’re sitting in the studio with Rosie.

9. Seabear - The Ghost that Carried Us Away
This album makes me miss Iceland, though I’ve never been.

8. Taxi Taxi! - Taxi Taxi!
I could sit and listen to these Swedish twins sing all day.

7. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Not only did this album stir the industry up, these songs will be favorites for a long time.

6. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
Our Ill Wills struck me as an album I had heard before, yet never had.

5. The Innocence Mission - We Walked In Song
The Innocence Mission has a way of grabbing my emotions like no other band.

4. Blonde Redhead - 23
Phenomenal album. It felt like a chemical addiction and I kept sneaking spins.

3. The Forms - The Forms
Twelve songs, each under four minutes, and I find myself listening to them several times on repeat.

2. Pela - Anytown Graffiti
My friends will attest that I asked them if they had heard Pela yet, and made sure they had.

1. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters
Maybe it’s the thick Scottish accent, the shoegaze distortion, and lyrics that plot out like a well written film, but this album continues to amaze me.

Shout Out Louds, a Swedish indie outfit, are in the middle of a European tour, in support of Our Ill Wills. Björn Yttling of Peter Björn and John produced Our Ill Wills, having guided them on their EP, Oh, Sweetheart. Close to two million plays on Last.fm may divulge the enormity of this band.

Their sophomore full-length was originally released in Sweden on April 25, then Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Austria in May. North America had no choice but to wait in line until September 11 when Merge Records released Our Ill Wills.

Taking just four days off between tours, Shout Out Louds will jump continents and yet again mesmerize crowds in North America on October 6. Twenty four gigs are scheduled across the US and Canada, ending November 3, though they will not be resting for long. As for the bands they will be tour with in the US, they wrote on their Myspace blog, “We are bringing Johnossi from Sweden with us and Nico Vega.”

Their first US single is the opening track, Tonight I Have To Leave It. An EP with the title of the track was released on September 5, with two additional songs and two remixes of Tonight I Have To Leave It.

Four guy and one girl, who had been friends since childhood, formed Luca Brasi in 2001… then realized that the band name was taken. Two years later they released Howl Howl Gaff Gaff, their debut full-length that granted them a world-wide audience.

Tonight I Have To Leave It EP track listing:
1. Tonight I Have to Leave It
2. Don’t Get Yourself Involved
3. Streams Of Whiskey (w/ The Essex Green)
4. Tonight I Have to Leave It (The Russian Futurists Remix)
5. Tonight I Have to Leave It (Kleerup Remix)

Our Ill Wills track listing:
1. Tonight I Have To Leave It
2. Your Parents Livingroom
3. You Are Dreaming
4. Suit Yourself
5. Blue Headlights
6. Impossible
7. Normandie
8. South America
9. Ill Wills
10. Time Left For Love
11. Meat Is Murder
12. Hard Rain

Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It (Kleerup Remix)

Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills


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A list of 60+ albums that are being released on September 11:
* Thanks to Fernanda Alcantara for piecing it together.

Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills - Merge Records
The Good Life -Help Wanted Nights - Saddle Creek Records
Farewell - Isn’t This Supposed to be Fun? - Epitaph
Hot Hot Heat - Happiness LTD - Warner Bros. Records
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
The World We Knew - Exordium
Devin Lima - Mozart Popart - One Eleven Records
Nevea Tears - Run With The Hunted - Eulogy
Mustard Plug - In Black And White
Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face
Ani DiFranco - Canon - Righteous Babe Records
Sarah Blasko - What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have - Low Attitude Records
Botch - We Are The Romans (Deluxe Edition)
Nightmare Of You - Bang EP - Bevonshire
The Action Design - Into a Sound - PopSmear Records
The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Addicted To Bad Ideas
Adrian Orange And Her Band - Adrian Orange And Her Band - K Records
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - Domino Records
Attica! Attica! - Dead Skin/Dried Blood - Red Leader Records
Axe Riverboy - Tutu To Tango - Minty Fresh Records
Belay My Last - The Downfall - Mediaskare Records
Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers - Metropolis Records
Bitter End - Climate Of Fear - Cooking Vinyl Records.
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil - Vice Records.
Bomb The Music Industry! - Get Warmer - Asian Man Records
Charlemagne - We Can Build An Island - Sidecho Records
Cloak/Dagger - We Are - Jade Tree Records
Deadly Syndrome - Ortolan - Dim Mak Records
Demented Are Go - Kicked Out Of Hell - Anagram Records.
Film School - Hideout - Beggar’s Banquet Records
From Graves Of Valor - Famine - Tragic Hero Records
Go! Team - Proof Of Youth - Sub Pop Records.
Henry Rollins - A Rollins In The Wry (relançamento) - Touch And Go Records
Inhuman - Last Rites - I Scream Records
Jenny Hoyston - Isle Of - Southern Records
Joe Henry - Civilians - Anti Records
Mono - Gone - Temporary Residence Records
Oakley Hall - I’ll Follow You - Merge Records
Orange - Escape From LA - Hellcat Records.
Picastro - Whore Luck - Polyvinyl Records
Qui - Love’s Miracle - Ipecac Records
Red Handed - Wounds Remain - Rivalry Records
River City Rebels - A Keepsake Of Luck - Silver Sprocket Records
Sluts - Sluts - Martyr Records
Soul Control - Involution - Rivalry Records
Tera Melos - Drugs To The Dear Youth - Sargent House Records.
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter - Constellation Records
Watershed - Three Chords And A Cloud Of Dust II - Idol Records.
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth - Domino Records
Mi Amore - The Lion - Cyclop Media
Blunderbuss - Blunderbuss - Escape Artist Records
Final Baton - Gras Dur - Cyclop Media Records
Animal/Archaeopteryx - Horror Orr - Unfun Records
Avec - Lines - Nightshift Records
Blues - Snakepit - Corrosive Records
The Hot Toddies - Smell The Mitten - Asian Man Records
One Small Step For Landmines - One Small Step For Landmines - Civil Defense League
Tv Smith & The Bored Teenagers - Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts Live - Boss Tuneage Records
Johnathan Rice - Further North - Reprise Records
Kanye West - Graduation - Roc A Fella Records
Jamestown Story - One Last Breath

Shout Out Louds - Suit Yourself
Film School - Dear Me
Ani DiFranco - Your Next Bold Move
Oakley Hall - Marine Life