About the same time when Peter Bjorn And John’s Young Folks started to circulate outside indie circles and its whistling became a minor international sensation, Shout Out Louds emerged with Tonight I Have To Leave It. The year was 2007 and the two bands became part of the top tier of Swedish music export, cementing a stereotypical image of bubbly Swedish indie pop with high hit factor.
2007 seems far back but it’s really only four years. Young Folks with all enormous, due respect but Tonight I Have To Leave It constantly feels topical and still brings out that joyous feeling as if you’ve heard it for the first time. It feels like it should be older because since its release it has been a common nominator for all indie kids and kids with alternative leanings in Sweden. It felt like it filled a void where we could all unite under one wonderful song that everyone know. The band has been a festival staple practically every year and this has been the song everyone’s been waiting for. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love or at least like or at least could pass it down. I think it’s because its melody, text and performance strikes a chord right on the thin line between heartfelt melancholia and blissful euphoria that’s universal. I think it’s one of those songs that surprisingly many can agree is a good, if not fantastic, song. Unequalled in Shout Out Louds’ discography and over the entire indie scene.
Listen to Tonight I Have To Leave It on Spotify!
Or watch the youtube video below.
