This Loud Morning
| David Cook
This Loud Morning
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. -Wikipedia
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Entertainment Weekly
David Cook must think the greatest era of rock history was between 1995 and 1999, when bands like Better Than Ezra and Our Lady Peace pumped alt radio full of post-grunge jangle. Both of those bands’ frontmen have co-writing credits on the former American Idol victor’s second album, This Loud Morning, which too often uses closing-credits-of-a-Michael-Bay-movie bombast to suffocate otherwise sweet, sometimes whimsical experiments like the album-opening ” Circadian.
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AllMusic
This Loud Morning is a curiously appropriate title for a David Cook album . . . Unlike so many rockers, Cook makes music not for the dead of night but for the crack of dawn, music that greets the day with a modicum of measured inspiration.Everything is tempered and deliberate, which isn’t to say it’s insincere: Cook emotes with gusto, never stopping to consider that his singing is lacquered over by all those guitars. So, 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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We Got This Covered
This Loud Morning is a strong album sure to please Cook’s fans, though the lack of radio friendly hits may hinder him from gaining new ones from people unwilling to listen to the whole thing.
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American Songwriter
This Loud Morning offers an irresistible balance of pop and rock to satisfy existing fans and entice new ones to Cook’s musical camp, especially those oblivious to Cook’s season seven Idol win. The album’s closer “Rapid Eye Movement,” is an ambitious six-minute rock ballad, which ends with the same intro heard in the opening track, making the album sound like an endless musical loop. This technique serves to entice the listener to return to the beginning of the album for repeated spins. While you may be too clever to fall for such a trick, these 12 tracks do indeed seem to get irresistibly better with each repeated listen.
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Blinded By Sound
David Cook's 'Morning' may be loud, but that doesn't make it interesting... If you’re a David Cook fan, this album will be just what you’ve been waiting for, and if you, like me, can take or leave him with equal happiness, I suggest leaving him and saving yourself a few bucks for a Starbucks coffee.
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Uproxx
What happens when you take an extremely gifted, Grammy-winning producer and top songwriters and pair them with an “American Idol” winner? You get an album that somehow ends up feeling like the synthesis of all their efforts, but with no defining personality at all . . . For fans of his last album, “David Cook,” this will probably be a very welcome addition to their Cook collection, for the rest of us, it feels a little like a lost opportunity for something better.
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Album of the Year
For a commercial pop-rock album, this is actually quite ambitious - thematically and a few times even sonically. Cook still occasionally succumbs to the sappy cliches of his pop-rock songwriter peers, however, it's actually forgiveable because his delivery never seems forced. There's earnesty and urgency to it. When he sings that "he's so tired of feeling" or "that (memories of a faded love) still keep him awake" you actually believe this guy meant it. He at least sounds like it. His vocal delivery certainly is a highlight on this LP. Most of the emotional resonance comes from the passion and emotion he puts into his lines, turning standard phrases you've heard a countless times by the Daughtrys and Nickelbacks of our time less ... well, boring and mawkish. If he gave up on the pop-rock stance for something less commercial than, I believe, he could create something truly inspiring or worth hearing.
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NewsOK
While Cook deserves praise for developing a cohesive narrative, his new album adheres too closely to its sonic through line. The middle section consists entirely of passionate power ballads and anthemic midtempo rockers, which eventually melt together until it's tough to tell one song from the next. Still, fans who have been waiting for new music since fall 2008, when Cook released his self-titled post-“Idol” debut, will eagerly seize “This Loud Morning.”
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relatemag
This Loud Morning takes David to a different place that his debut didn’t allow. First, his debut was done in less than five months. This latest release took a year to complete. And like Kelly had done with My December, this album stays within a theme, a journey. While Kelly’s focused on a lot of heartbreak, This Loud Morning takes the listener from the beginning of a relationship where things are wonderful to the midpoint, where you start to see cracks, to the end where it all falls apart and you’re left to analyze and discover how to move on.
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sputnik music
This isn't your run of the mill American Idol winner album. David Cook's sophomore release also isn't your run of the mill Pop/Rock album. The songs have meaning and are filled with huge choruses that give the album a very anthemic sound. That is where the problem lies. This is an album filled with anthems. Granted, they're very well written anthems, especially for this genre, but listening to songs with huge choruses gets tiring and monotonous after a while.
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