THE SHOUTLESS - REVIEWS

BABY COME ON

There´s something mentally ill going on in Sweden and THE SHOUTLESS are banging their heads against the walls of that country´s musical padded cell along with the rest. How come Sweden can get its rocks off while England fails? The most dangerous sounding guitar I´ve heard all week shrieks its heart out on this record and its pain is music to my ears. Somebody buy this band a beer.
SOUNDS 861503

THE SHOUTLESS are back on the scene with another record. And what a smasher it is.
I can promise, you haven´t heard such a wild, raving and breathtaking song for long time. BABY COME ON is a self-penned piece with with shouted vocals, a lot of tambourines,
a fuzzy guitar and a superb production. Nevertheless it doesn´t lack a really good and catchy melody and good harmonies. Theres nothing more to be added, buy the record and become another follower of this outstanding group from Sweden. Recommended!!!!!!!



They still sound a bit like The Nomads but BABY COME ON is delievered with such power and determination even The Nomads couldn´t easily match it. I´ve been listening to it for months and it still makes me shiver - I want to learn to play guitar that way! STAY BY ME is a funny and harsh manicbilly ditty sure to make you want how to bop, too.
You can´t live without this 45!
SISUBEAT

THE SHOUTLESS also have a new waxing out and though it isn´t as great as INSANE was (you can´t come up with a masterpiece each time, can you?) BABY COME ON is one of those great power stompers that can set houses ablaze.

Whereas the singing is pretty normal, though still exciting enough, it´s the guitar solo that makes the record stand well ahead of other (similar) tunes….the sharpest piece of messy fuzzbashing I´ve heard for ages. Over the top feedback and fuzzzzzzz noise supported by an ultra heavy backing….hear this live and you´ll be blown away.
A combination of ”Ace of spades”-era Motorhead and ”I´m a man”-era Yardbirds couldn´t achieve more.

STAY BY ME is ”The train kept a-rollin´”-influenced rockabilly pop….great distorted bashing, too, gutsy and both tunes prove that THE SHOUTLESS are to be reckoned with as one of Sweden´s sharpest acts after quite a disappointing OUT OF REACH debut mini-LP. These two tunes put them on par with The Nomads and gangs of equal standard again.

This is also proved by the flexi coming with swedish magazine ”The Eye”, a raw Stooges-soundalike titled BUY THE EYE. Really a blistering thunderstorm of sounds.
HARTBEAT

BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT

THE SHOUTLESS have been around a while too, BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT is the band´s second 12” release. The two guitar four-piece pack a hefty wallop, with blockbuster performances of ON BROADWAY TONIGHT and I TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE opening in fine style. DO THE EYE extends the band´s tribute to Sweden´s excellent rock mag (”The eye”), that began with their BUY THE EYE flexi-disc, a gloriously punishing exercise in powerhouse guitarplay. The four tracks on side two are equally good, even the unpromisingly titled EAT SOME FOOD which is, in fact, one of the best. Excellent production by Willy B retains every last ounce of power - a hard-rocking delight
served hot - grab one!
BUCKETFULL OF BRAINS juni 1987

I didn´t expect anything else, and I don´t want too spend too many words on them. Those who don´t understand can´t follow, it´s as easy as that. I knew that those ultra-heavy songs in the path of the Nomads would be there and that they would be great and real rave-ups. And so they were, but it was those songs with the laid-back approach that round off this LP. Read the titles and you will know what you get:
STEWBUMMER WALTZ, BABY´S COMING HOME (a meisterwerk), GREAT SHAKES,
DO THE EYE, ON BROADWAY TONIGHT.

I wished THE SHOUTLESS lived around the corner and I could see them play twice a month. Unfortunately they don´t. DO THE EYE is the fiercest fuzz-punker this side of the ocean….who has ever heard the like? I haven´t! God! Awards for beeing really unbelievable heavy. What do these swedes up there take?