Starting out as a few old friends playing in a drafty Stockholm rehearsal space in 2002, recording 60s-era and American indie-inspired songs backed by a temperamental drum machine stuck on bossa nova, the band soon added a proper drummer and someone who actually knew how to play the Moog synthesizer they'd been toying with (they got lucky and recruited a classically-trained pianist with a Stooges obsession).
Shout Out Louds gave their very first demos to a close friend who promptly started a record company to release them in Scandinavia, which led to a popular series of singles, EP's and the passionately received Howl Howl Gaff Gaff album, which is now remastered with new songs for its U.S. release.