Brightest Young Things

The last time Edmonton's finest disco/dance/high kick extravaganza Shout out out out out were in town, Cale and Ben went and Pat took photos and it was pretty much the best show only a handful of people in DC saw. You can read about it all here.
Afterwards we essentially promised ourselves we'd do everything in our power to get as many people out to see them the next time they cross these waters.
Which, as luck would have it, is tonight, on a Wednesday, at RNR hotel, one night after cinco de mayo and the whole Junior Boys/Max Tundra extravaganza which we are sure left you tired.
BUT-PERSEVERE.
Seriously.
And this is why?
We had the band write up some of their favorite songs from their new, epic, Gary Newman-esque album "Reintegration time" and we've interspersed it with awesome live Pat Jarrett photos. If this does not get you going, we don't know what will.

1. Bad choices:
This is probably the band's favorite song on the album. It brings together a lot of our major influences and our current tastes in electronic music. A long slow build with layers of pulsing synths, that eventually break into a Krautrock informed 8th note kick drum feel. We were listening to a lot of Neu!, Tangerine Dream, and Klaus Schulze while we were making this record. I think of this song as the glue that binds together the feel of the whole album, bridging the spacey, almost prog, side of what we are doing, with dance music.

2. Guilt Trips Sink Ships:
Probably the most dance floor ready song on the album. We went for a big electro bassline with two old Roland synths (SH-1 and SH-101) doubling the same part. The chorus is pretty anthemic, lyrically dealing with making a stand against outside pressure in the name of maintaining happiness. This is a big part of theme of the album as a whole.

3. Coming Home (feat. Cadence Weapon):
This a an acid-y jam featuring our hometown friend Cadence Weapon. He's a long time pal of ours who started making his largely electronic rap records around the same time we were starting to put Shout Out Out Out Out together. I first got to know Cadence Weapon through my studio in Edmonton, where I worked on both of his albums. Whenever we happen to be in the same city at the same time we'll usually play a jam together. When we were putting together our new album, we decided to have a few guest vocalists, and it made perfect sense to have Rollie involved. We put together this acid track for him, explained the overall thematic things we wanted to touch on throughout the album, and he came back with this killer vocal about the disillusionment involved in being away from your home town all the time, and then trying to return to a normal human life.

4. Reintegration Time:
The title track from our new album is a spacey slow-burner with a shuffle feel. A lot of the sounds on this one were created with the Minimoog Voyager, including all of the electronic drum sounds. We wanted to cap the album off with an instrumental finale, and i think this punctuates the feel of the whole album nicely. Big smooth string pad sounds, spacey analog noises, and a sequenced hook from the FutureRetro Revolution (basically a 303). All of the synth sounds were run through a Roland Space Echo (a classic analog tape echo unit) on this one, and the tracks ends with what is essentially a long sequence of layered tape loops that came from that unit. My space Echo needs to be cleaned, and it needs a new tape, so the result is that nothing ever really gets erased on it. I used this to our advantage to create this ending.

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