“Ease My Mind” is the fifth full-length album from Swedish pop masters Shout Out Louds, and their first since 2013’s Optica.
“Ease My Mind” celebrates music as a means of escape, a need to take a break from feeling petrified with fear,” Shout Out Louds’ Adam Olenius and Bebban Stenborg write. “The world is a different place now than it was in the beginning of the 2000s. We didn’t grow up very aware of political messages in music and probably didn’t feel much of an urgent need to understand the world around us, in that sense. However, that has changed over the years. The world has seemed extremely dystopic and frail for quite a while now, and having children and getting older forces you to open your eyes to issues more devastating than heartbreak and feeling lost. But in our music, we still allow ourselves to address things the way we always have: through emotions rather than analysis. Ease My Mind is a lot about that for us.”
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