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''This Loud Morning'' is the second major-label studio album, third overall by American singer-songwriter
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. It was released on June 28, 2011, by
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. Executive produced by
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, the album featured tracks written and co-written by Cook along with many acclaimed songwriters, including
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Background

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
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. 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
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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".


Theme

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. Cook revealed "Rapid Eye Movement" was written early on in the writing process, and the song "opened up isthought process to the rest of this record". On using sleep and dream as a narrative theme, he added, "I like that romantic idea of living an entire life for yourself while you’re asleep".


Album title

The title of the album is from a line in lyrics from a song on the album called "Rapid Eye Movement" – "Give me one more quiet night, 'fore this loud morning gets it right and does me in."


Critical reception

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gave the album 3 out of 5 stars stating that "This Loud Morning winds up as an album that's primarily textural mood music for the morning, and one that's not all that loud either". ''
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'' also gave the album 3 out of 5 stars stating that "This Loud Morning has a much more artistic vibe combined with a rawness evident in Cook's vocal performances not found on his previous Rob Cavallo produced release. This is refreshing considering Serletic's meticulous production style often results in songs becoming trapped in immense layers of over produced schlock. The album includes balanced amounts of strings, piano, and crunchy guitar, which all suit this more mature sounding material. Cook's more developed lyrics, melodic structures (he co-wrote all 12 tracks), and grittier vocal performances throughout the album abundantly display his overall growth as an artist."
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also gave the album a positive review. Entertainment Weekly stated that This Loud Morning, uses closing-credits-of-a-Michael-Bay-movie bombast too often to suffocate otherwise sweet, sometimes whimsical experiments like the album-opening ''Circadian.''


Singles

" The Last Goodbye" was the first official single from the album and was released on April 19, 2011. The song made its debut live on the
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top 7 results show on April 21, 2011. "The Last Goodbye" sold 22,000 copies in its first week and entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart at number five. "
Fade into Me "Fade into Me" is the second single from American rock singer David Cook's second major label studio album, '' This Loud Morning''. It was written by Cook along with Kevin Griffin, and Jamie Houston and produced by Matt Serletic. This is Cook's la ...
" is the second single from the album. It was released on October 10, 2011.


Track listing


Chart performance and sales

''This Loud Morning'' debuted at number 7 on the ''Billboard'' 200 selling 46,000 copies in the
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. and at number 23 on the
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. As of August 2015 the album has sold 133,000 copies.


''This Quiet Night EP''

''This Quiet Night'', is an EP packaged with ''This Loud Morning'' fan editions available exclusively via Cook's official music store and consists of acoustic performances of select album tracks. The CD version became available when it was released as a Walmart exclusive on February 7, 2012.David Cook's Blog
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Track listing


Personnel

;Band members *David Cook – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar *Monty Anderson – bass guitar *Kyle Peek – drums, backing vocals *
Andy Skib Andy Skib (born November 9, 1985, San Diego, San Diego, California) is the lead singer of the rock band Midwest Kings (MWK). He spent most of 2009 on the Declaration Tour with ''American Idol'' season seven winner David Cook (singer), David Coo ...
– rhythm guitar, background vocals, piano *
Neal Tiemann Neal Tiemann (born December 22, 1982) is an American musician, currently the lead guitarist and songwriter of the rock band the Midwest Kings (MWK). He is a former rhythm guitarist for Heavy metal music, heavy metal band DevilDriver, and served ...
– lead guitar, acoustic baritone guitar ;Musicians *Mark Castrillon – background vocals *
Chris Chaney Christopher A. Chaney (born June 14, 1970) is an American musician. He is best known as the former bassist of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, with whom he recorded two studio albums. He is the touring bassist for AC/DC, replacing lo ...
– bass guitar *Dorian Crozier – drums *Kaare Kabel Mai – drums *
Jamie Muhoberac Benjamin Edward "Jamie" Muhoberac (born September 11, 1965) is an American session keyboardist with numerous credits. He is best known for his work with Seal and Was (Not Was). He is a touring member of New Jersey rock band My Chemical Romance. ...
– keyboards *
Tim Pierce Tim Pierce (born 1958 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and th ...
– acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar *Joel Shearer – acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar *Rune Westberg – guitar *
Phil X Theofilos Xenidis (born March 10, 1966), better known as Phil X, is a Canadian musician. Since 2013, he has played lead guitar with Bon Jovi and officially replaced former lead guitarist Richie Sambora in 2016. Career Early bands and session wor ...
– acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar ;German Pops Orchestra *Christiane Alber – violoncello *Betty Bachofer – viola *Lisa Barry – violin 1 *Monika Beck – violin 2 *Felix Brade – violoncello *Alexander Brutsch – viola *Kathrin Bscheidl – violin *Friederike Faust – viola *Natascha Klotschkoff – viola *Johannes Krampen – violin 1 *Klaus Kulling – violin 1 *Klaus Marquardt – violin 2 *Constantin Meier – violoncello *Marcin Niziol – viola *Claudiu Rupa – violin 2 *Bernd Ruf – orchestra music director *Michael Speth – violin 1 *Alex Uhl – double basso *Ariane Volm – violin 2 *Ulrich Zimmer – orchestra contractor & leader ;Children Choir *Julian Babad *Christopher James *Michael O'Brien *Victor Pineschi *Jasper Randall – choir contractor *Hale Thornhill-Wilson ;Production *Alex Arias – 2nd engineer, engineer *Bettina Bertok – assistant *Andrew Bollman – assistant mixing engineer *Mark Dobson – pro tools editor, recording engineer *Kevin Estrada – 2nd engineer *Travis Kennedy – assistant mixing engineer *Ryan Kern – 2nd engineer *Mike Leisz – 2nd engineer, engineer *Bob Ludwig – mastering *Seth Morton – assistant mixing engineer *Kelle Musgrove – production coordinator *Justin Niebank – mixing engineer *Tim Palmer – mixing engineer *Cindi Peters – mix coordinator *Matt Serletic – arranger, keyboards, piano, producer, programmer *Doug Trantow – pro tools editor, programmer, recording engineer *Adrian von Ripka – tonmeister *Rune Westberg – producer (bonus track 14), recording engineer ;Rokulus Strings *Mojca Arnold – violin *Ziga Cerar – violin *Marijana Gregoric – violin *Rok Golob – conductor and orchestrator *Ursula Ivanus – acoustic cello *Ajda Kralj – violin *Marija Naversnik – violin *Pavel Rakar – acoustic cello *Marjeta Skrjanc – viola *Tomaz Stular – contrabass *Tamar Tasev – viola *Nastja Znideric – violin *Andreja Zupanc – violin


Release history


References

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