This Loud Morning
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| Studio album by David Cook | ||||
| Released | June 28, 2011 | |||
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| Length | 48:20 (Standard Edition) 56:14 (Deluxe Edition) |
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| Producer | Matt Serletic | |||
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Deluxe edition cover
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| Allmusic |
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| American Songwriter |
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| Blinded by Sound | Mixed |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B-) |
| This Quiet Night | |
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| EP by David Cook | |
| Released |
June 28, 2011 (Pre-order) February 7, 2012 (Walmart Exclusive) |
| Recorded | May 2011 |
| Genre | Acoustic rock |
| Length | 17:55 |
| Label | RCA |
This Loud Morning is the second major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter David Cook. It was released on June 28, 2011, by RCA Records. Executive produced by Matt Serletic, the album featured tracks written and co-written by Cook along with many acclaimed songwriters, including Johnny Rzeznik, David Hodges, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Griffin and Marti Frederiksen.
David Cook began to concentrate working on this his second album after his first major tour, the Declaration Tour, concluded in December 2009. While on the tour, he put down some riffs and lyrical ideas, and started song-writing as a band towards the end of the tour. He collaborated with a number of songwriters, early collaborators on his song-writing included Matt Squire, Brian Howes, Claude Kelly, Max Martin, Raine Maida and John Rzeznik. More than 80 songs were written for the album, and 14 were tracked. He had hoped initially that a single would be ready for release in April 2010 and the album that summer. However, a producer for the album was not announced until May, and recording started in June that year with producer Matt Serletic at the helm.
Before recording, he said he has "lofty ideas" for his second album and described early songs written with Julian Emery and Jim Irvin as having "massive choruses" and "very U2-esque". At the beginning his goal was to make an album that "really, really pushed the concept of dynamic".
Cook wanted the album to have a loose theme within the record that is open to interpretation by the listener. He described the opening song "Circadian" as being about "falling asleep and escaping the day, and using sleep as a reprieve", the middle of the album being "the gestation cycle of a relationship from start to finish", and the ending track "Rapid Eye Movement" being about waking up from a dream and having to face actual reality.
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