![]() ![]() “No one knows who I am / It’s between the sky and I.” He’s joined on the song by the band’s Bebban Stenborg, who only adds to its bittersweet atmosphere when she sings the line “Feeling something between pain and pleasure”-and you’re suddenly trapped in the amber of time, between past and present, love and loss. “Let me stay here forever / Let me get lost in time,” sings Olenius, lost but somehow comfortable. “Sky & I (Himlen)” expands on that sentiment and sentimentality both literally and figuratively. House is just eight songs long, but it draws you deeply into the warm memories that serve as its foundation, into those long drawn-out summer days of youth, of being promising and wide-eyed and happy to be alive-and far removed from the bleak realities of 2022. Coincidence? Possibly. Ultimately, deliberate or otherwise, those frames of reference exist. And then the third song shares its title with The Cure’s 1990 remix album, Mixed Up. None of that is more audible or visible than on this, the Stockholm-based five-piece’s sixth full-length. Its second song is called “High As a Kite.” It’s admittedly a common phrase, but one that can’t help but evoke, again, the sad-summer glee of “High” and its impressionistic opening imagery: “When I see you sky as I kite / As high as I might / I can’t get that high.” That comparison might be a stretch were it not preceded by opener “As Far Away As Possible,” a blissful dose of nostalgia that contains some incredibly Cure-esque guitar lines. And just as few do hopelessly romantic like The Cure, Shout Out Louds certainly give them a good run for their money. And while nobody really sounds like Robert Smith, on occasion through the years frontman Adam Olenius has managed to channel the messy-haired, eyeliner-wearing icon with his own vocals. For one thing, there’s the band’s name-likely a nod to lyrics on the British band’s 1992 song “High.” Then there are the spritely but melancholy guitar licks that have embedded themselves in their songs over the course of their 21-year existence, little shimmers of reference, influence, and homage. Keith Summers’ writings on E.There’s always been a little bit of The Cure found within the fabric of Swedish indie outfit Shout Out Louds.Sheet music: Musescore uploaded by Trevor Coard. ![]() It has been collected from the singing of Wicketts Richardson, one of a number of famous traditional singers based at the Old Blaxhall Ship pub.Ī World War 1 Music Hall song (published 1915) written by Weston and Lee and performed by Stanley Kirkby & Harry Hudson, a popular Music Hall act during the war and in the 1920s. This is not a song that has been widely adopted by many recording artists during the folk revival, at least not that I’m aware of – though it still appears in the repertoire of many Music Hall enthusiasts. ![]() Then she'd hear a customer and answer, "No fear!" He would softly whisper in her dear little ear In would come a customer to ask him the timeīack he'd go once more and say, "Darn the shop!" In the middle of a moment really sublime, Somebody would come in for a quarter of cheeseīack he'd go again and try to cuddle his honeyĪnd somebody would shout out shop, shop, shop Somebody would come in for a bundle of wood Just as he was kissing her and making good He would entertain her in a lover-like way In his small back parlour they would sit and spoon ![]()
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