Euphoria Morning
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| Studio album by Chris Cornell | ||||
| Released | September 21, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
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| Length | 50:55 | |||
| Label | Interscope | |||
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Re-released in 2015 as Euphoria Mourning
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| AllMusic |   |
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| Robert Christgau | (C+) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B+) |
| NME | (4.0/10) |
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Euphoria Morning is the first solo studio album released by American musician Chris Cornell. It was released on September 21, 1999 through Interscope Records. Euphoria Morning sold over 75,000 copies in its first week of release and eventually sold 343,000 copies in the U.S. alone. While a large success critically, it did not sell nearly as well as Cornell's albums with Soundgarden. It is Cornell's only album between the split of Soundgarden until he formed Audioslave with members of Rage Against the Machine. The original working title of this album was to be "Euphoria Mourning" however, a typo changed the album name to "Euphoria Morning". This was confirmed by Chris Cornell at his Philadelphia show on the Songbook Tour. In 2015 the album was re-released on CD and vinyl with the title Euphoria Mourning, with Chris Cornell stating in the press release that he had originally intended for the album to be called Eurphoria Mourning. In radio interviews at the time of the album's original release, Cornell noticed that the words "morning" and "mourning" sound identical when spoken. He decided that spelling it "mourning" was confusing, so he changed it to "morning". As soon as the album came out, he immediately regretted the decision.
In 1998, Cornell began working on material for a solo album on which he collaborated with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven. "Flutter Girl" was an outtake from Superunknown, the 1994 Soundgarden album. During his 2007 solo tour, Cornell stated that "Wave Goodbye" was written as a tribute to Jeff Buckley, who drowned in 1997.
According to AllMusic's Euphoria Morning is " a shaded, textured rock album," lacking the "grinding sludge and furious rock" of Soundgarden. Nevertheless, the album was described to be of a piece with Soundgarden's psychedelic-indebted 1994 album Superunknown and delves back into ’60s psychedelic melodies and acoustic ditties."Los Angeles Times' Mikael Wood described the album's style as "psychedelic folk-rock."
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