Shout Out Louds return with “Closer,” their first single in five years, and the song deals with heartbreak as a desire to escape. Adam Olenius describes that need as both geographical and spiritual. Sometimes, getting away from real life also means trying to leave yourself behind.
The song marks the beginning of a new album due in 2027, their seventh, but there is little else to go on about what the record will sound like. Olenius describes it as more emotional, desperate and broken than their previous work. For now, “Closer” offers the first glimpse of that direction. There is something familiar about wanting to get closer to someone while also wanting to disappear. The two impulses sit side by side in the song’s central idea. After five years without new music, Shout Out Louds return with a song that starts from a need to get away.
