PLACEBO SHARE COVER OF CLASSIC TEARS FOR FEARS SINGLE โSHOUTโ
SO RECORDINGS
Placebo have released a cover of the iconic Tears For Fears single, โShoutโ (https://lnk.to/Placebo-Shout). โShout,โ taken from the Tears For Fears album Songs From The Big Chair, peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985 and joins a rich lineage of Placebo cover versions of songs from the โ80s. Artists such as Sinead OโConnor (โJackieโ), The Smiths (โBigmouth Strikes Againโ), The Pixies (โWhere Is My Mind?โ) and – most famously of all – Kate Bush (โRunning Up That Hillโ) have all been covered by the band.
In this latest Placebo interpretation, โShoutโ becomes a brooding industrial march. Given that the singleโs original songwriter Roland Orzabal has said that โShoutโ concerns itself with political protest, it also makes for a fitting follow-on from Placeboโs latest album release Never Let Me Go, which marked itself out with commentary on tech-saturation, rising intolerance and the climate crisis.
Placebo recently announced a postponement of their North American tour dates, with rescheduled performances to be announced soon.
Never Let Me Go, the bandโs first album in nearly a decade, arrived in March. Classic Rock said โlike their sci-fi-noir rock contemporaries Garbage, Placebo are a band to which music is finally catching upโ and Kerrang! described the collection as โprescient tales of loss, surveillance, and climate change,โ dubbing it โa record for our times.โ
About Placebo
Placebo formed in 1994, with the London-based pair of Brian Molko (vocals/guitar) and Stefan Olsdal (bass/guitar), releasing their eponymous debut just two years later. In the intervening years, Placebo have released eight studio albums, that have sold over 13 million copies, filled stadiums from Moscow to Sydney, won numerous awards including a 1999 Brit Award, and pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality.
Placebo
[Single]
(SO Recordings)
Release Date: September 6, 2022