The New Owners was also able to get a shout-out from the famous rapper, Ice-T. “It’s a pretty fun community that we entered into that I didn’t really realize was there,” Driver said. He said being involved in the competition has also given the band the opportunity to get exposure and meet other musicians. ![]() READ MORE: Rock on! Royal Bay house band aims to impress at Rock the Rinkĭriver said the deadline to write songs for their first performance helped push the band to write good music. “Everybody seemed to really like it, and then a few months later we entered Victory to Vinyl and won our first round,” Driver said. They ended up writing five songs in two months just in time for the show. READ MORE: Jesse Roper song serenades Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry on American Idolĭriver said when the band booked their first show ever at Darcy’s Pub before the competition began, they didn’t have any original songs. “That’s what we’re hoping to do,” Driver said. If they win the Victory to Vinyl competition on Thursday, they will receive a $3,000 recording voucher at any studio to help them record their first album. Their upcoming performance is only their fifth show but the band performs all originals with the exception of one Rolling Stones cover. The band - which consists of members Elijah Driver, Jamie Beaman, Brandon Weatherell and Tyler Thomassen - got together in August. The New Owners, a four-piece rock band, was selected to be in the top four out of 16 bands that have been performing at the competition over the last month. “I wanna stay, wanna say, I'm so sorry for everything,” sings Olenius at the start of the second verse, setting up the mood that pervades this crescendo’s crescendo: “I wish you knew me yesterday / I was all-time high / Light years from how I feel today / That's how it is sometimes.” That last line repeats over and over, emphatic and sad and defiant, conveying so much emotion beyond those five lines.A Langford-based band will be vying for first place Thursday at the Victory to Vinyl competition at Darcy’s Pub on the West Shore. That’s something felt in equal measure on “Multiply,” which soars with dreamy escapism before album closer “Sometimes Sometimes” drops the mood somewhat, ending this sublime album on a note of beautifully sad resignation. “No one knows who I am / It’s between the sky and I.” He’s joined on the song by the band’s Bebban Stenborg, who only adds to its bittersweet atmosphere when she sings the line “Feeling something between pain and pleasure”-and you’re suddenly trapped in the amber of time, between past and present, love and loss. “Let me stay here forever / Let me get lost in time,” sings Olenius, lost but somehow comfortable. “Sky & I (Himlen)” expands on that sentiment and sentimentality both literally and figuratively. House is just eight songs long, but it draws you deeply into the warm memories that serve as its foundation, into those long drawn-out summer days of youth, of being promising and wide-eyed and happy to be alive-and far removed from the bleak realities of 2022. Coincidence? Possibly. Ultimately, deliberate or otherwise, those frames of reference exist. ![]() And then the third song shares its title with The Cure’s 1990 remix album, Mixed Up. None of that is more audible or visible than on this, the Stockholm-based five-piece’s sixth full-length. Its second song is called “High As a Kite.” It’s admittedly a common phrase, but one that can’t help but evoke, again, the sad-summer glee of “High” and its impressionistic opening imagery: “When I see you sky as I kite / As high as I might / I can’t get that high.” That comparison might be a stretch were it not preceded by opener “As Far Away As Possible,” a blissful dose of nostalgia that contains some incredibly Cure-esque guitar lines. And just as few do hopelessly romantic like The Cure, Shout Out Louds certainly give them a good run for their money. And while nobody really sounds like Robert Smith, on occasion through the years frontman Adam Olenius has managed to channel the messy-haired, eyeliner-wearing icon with his own vocals. For one thing, there’s the band’s name-likely a nod to lyrics on the British band’s 1992 song “High.” Then there are the spritely but melancholy guitar licks that have embedded themselves in their songs over the course of their 21-year existence, little shimmers of reference, influence, and homage. There’s always been a little bit of The Cure found within the fabric of Swedish indie outfit Shout Out Louds.
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