Shout (Devo album)

Shout
a boy holds his hand to his mouth in a shouting gesture as a sound wave seems to exit his mouth
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 8, 1984 (1984-10-08)[1]
RecordedJuly 1983 – February 1984
StudioRecord Plant (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length32:48
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerDevo
Devo chronology
Oh, No! It's Devo
(1982)
Shout
(1984)
Total Devo
(1988)
Singles from Shout
  1. "Are You Experienced?"
    Released: 1984
  2. "Here to Go"
    Released: 1985
  3. "Shout"
    Released: 1985

Shout is the sixth studio album by American new wave band Devo, released on October 8, 1984 by Warner Bros. Records.

Arriving two years after their previous studio album, Oh, No! It's Devo (1982), the album retained the synth-pop sound of their previous few records, with an extensive focus on the then-new Fairlight CMI, Series IIx digital sampling synthesizer. Despite the popularity of synth-pop in 1984, the album was a critical and commercial failure, peaking at only No. 83 on the Billboard 200[2] and ultimately leading to Warner Bros. dropping the band from their label. Most of the band members have stated that they were not satisfied with the completed album and the band went on hiatus for four years following its release. Although Devo would release two studio albums through Enigma Records, they would not release another studio album through Warner Bros. until their ninth Something for Everybody (2010).

  1. ^ Zax, Andy (2000). Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology (CD liner notes). Los Angeles: Rhino. R2 75967.
  2. ^ "Devo". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2021-12-08.