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THIS LOUD MORNING OUT
NOW
Over the last few years, David
Cook’s life has been punctuated by extraordinary highs and devastating lows. In
short order, the 28-year-old singer, songwriter, and musician won the seventh
season of America’s most popular television show, American Idol, rewrote chart history with a
record-breaking 14 debuts on Billboard’s Digital Songs chart, released his self-titled
major-label debut album in November 2008, watched it debut at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart, spawn two Top 20
singles (the platinum “Light On” and “Come Back To Me”), and sell more than a
million copies, reaching platinum status. He immediately hit the road for his
year-long “Declaration Tour” to support it. In May of that year, Cook’s older
brother, Adam, who had been fighting a battle with brain cancer, died of the
disease. On December 2009, one day after the tour ended, Cook traveled to New
York City to begin writing the songs that would become his second album, This
Loud Morning.
“I got off the road and all the things that happened that I hadn’t been dealing
with while I was on the road reared their head,” Cook says. “So as I began
writing these songs that would eventually make up This Loud Morning, the act of using these songs as
therapeutic outlets became a major release for me, and I think the end result
is a bit of up, a bit of down, and a lot of honesty.”
The result is a batch of deeply honest, emotional songs that “allow whomever’s
listening to look through a window at the past two years of my life,” the
Texas-born, Missouri-raised Cook says. “It’s probably the most therapeutic
album I’ve ever written.” As Cook was writing the songs, a theme began to
emerge. “There were mornings where I woke up and all I wanted to do was pull
the blanket back over my head and try again tomorrow,” Cook says. That feeling
inspired the album’s opening track, “Circadian,” as well as its closing track,
“Rapid Eye Movement,” which includes a line from which the album’s title is
taken: “Give me one more quiet night before this loud morning gets it right and
does me in.” “I think everyone’s been at that point where they just feel, ‘Man,
the world is loud,’
Cook says. “The only reprieve you get is when you’re asleep. I wanted to blend
that feeling with the romantic idea that you can live your entire life during
the hours you’re asleep — that there’s this pause button you can use to make
sense of the world around you.”
Cook’s growth as a singer, songwriter, and musician can be heard in every facet
of This Loud Morning. “I feel that we were able to find the perfect landscape for these
songs,” Cook says. “Each one is its own living, breathing thing. I've always
approached making records the same way I've approached putting a band together:
I'm not concerned with the best songs or the best musicians. I'm concerned with
the right songs and the right musicians. My focus is to make great records and
having something real and truthful to write about really helped. I feel like
the growth in this record is musical, it’s lyrical, it's emotional, and that
what I've hit on is something that a lot of people can relate to.”
Having been a musician and performer since he was a teenager, Cook (who first
picked up a guitar at age 12 and formed his first band at 15) is eager to hit
the road to support This Loud Morning. “The last record took four and a half months from first
day of writing to finished product,” Cook says. “So to go from that to taking a
year and a half? I'm ready to play this record for people. I can’t wait to get
on a stage, look people in the eye, and see their reaction, whatever it may be.
Hopefully it’ll be hands in the air and singing all the words.”
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