It is such a wild contrast, that people get a little crazy. Then, in May-June, the sun never goes down, and you get very little darkness. For four months of the year, light is a delicacy in Sweden. "You have like one hour of daylight per day. "We have a crazy few months, like December-January, up in the north," said Olenius. The unqiue relationship people living in their country have with light and dark also plays a key role in informing the tunes on "Optica,' as well as providing the allusion in the title. One direction they wanted to go for with this new one was bolder and brighter melodies,more direct feelings and themes. The Shout Out Louds felt that the previous album had been a bit grey, dealing in ambivalent themes and feelings. It gave us more freedom-every idea was potentially a good idea-and then after a certain point we had to have a filter and see how it all fit together." But we slipped past the whole rehearsal thing, and avoided everyone falling into those typical roles we'd take on in rehearsal. Generally, between writing, rehearsing, recoding, doing artwork and videos, you're immersed in this project for up to three years. "Usually we come up with our ideas and then work them out in our rehearsal space, before recording. "One big difference this time is that we did away with the rehearsal space sessions," Olenius added. But this time we wanted to do one while spending a lot of time in the studio, playing around more with the keyboards and the other machines." We had really liked the way that album was recorded, in a very traditional way. You naturally want to break from the past, and do something different. "We were then touring on that music for two years straight, and when you do that, there's always a reaction. "When we did 'Work' we were very happy with it," said Olenius, from a Philadelphia tour stop. For their third album, Shout Out Louds went to Seattle to work under the hand of producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Built to Spill, The Shins), and 2010's "Work" gathered still more interest and glittery reviews for the Stockholm quintet. Tracii Guns appears as well on the new release.Shout Out Louds enlisted a guest singer on thir second CD, as Lykke Li joiend them on 2007's "Our Ill Wills," and their profile continued to rise. Kiss legend Bruce Kulick is featured on a total of 4 songs including their version of the unreleased Gene Simmons song “Love is blind” and the cover of “East Bound And Down” where the band was joined by Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup on vocals. Like on all Shameless releases, Tuff singer Stevie Rachelle, sang on a couple of the songs. The band already released the single “Live Your Dream” with Charlotte last year in conjunction with Michael's book “Looking Inside: The Stainless Sensation”, a 500 page deluxe bound definitive history of John DeLorean, the DMC 12 and the DeLorean Motor Company.Ĭharlotte sings 5 of the new tracks plus adding backing vocals on almost all the other tracks. Louis, Copenhagen and Auckland, New Zealand. Due to the pandemic making in-person studio recording impossible, Shameless recorded the recorded the record at 12 different locations all over the world including Munich, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, St. Since then, the international outfit has released 7 full-length albums and went on numerous tours.įor “So Good, You Should…”, Michael again teamed up with guitarist partner BC, Charlotte Tybalt, Dennis Post, Stevie Rachelle (Tuff), Frankie Muriel and Tod T Burr to release their first ever covers album which also includes 2 brand-new tracks. Alexx enlisted help from drummer Eric Singer (KISS, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath), who's introduction to Steve “Sex” Summers (Pretty Boy Floyd) and Stevie Rachelle (Tuff) started a long lasting musical relationship. After a breakup, Michael decided to reform Shameless in 1998 with his friend and guitar player BC. Shameless is a Hard Rock Glam band formed in the Spring of 1989 by bassist Alexx “Skunk” Michael in Munich, Germany. "So Good You Should" can be pre-ordered here: /shameless2022 "Shout It Out" is the first advance single from the group's new album "So Good, You Should" which will be released on may 20th, 2022! The song is now available in all digital stores and as video on Youtube: WATCH the video here: Ínternational Glam Rock/ Hard Rock band SHAMELESS have release a single & video for the song "Shout It Out" today via Pride & Joy Music! SHAMELESS - Single & Video zum Track "Shout It Out"
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