Kings of Leon have shared “Cold Blue Dawn,” the second preview of their forthcoming album, O My Beloved. The track arrives alongside an appropriately elemental lyric video made in collaboration with The Weather Channel.
The first-of-its-kind lyric video uses satellite imagery to spell out the song across the surface of the Earth, pulling letter shapes from rivers, coastlines, farmlands, islands, ocean swells, volcanoes, and other natural and man-made formations. The video opens with grainy, Super 8-style footage of the road slipping by beneath an increasingly dark sky before zooming out to those sweeping geographic views. Midway through, the scale narrows again, cutting to archival footage of the band on Earth walking with their hands in their pockets and fishing in a sunlit stream, before zooming out again — shrinking the band against the planet while allowing the song’s words and message to stretch across it.
Collaboration with The Weather Channel
The collaboration came about after The Weather Channel paired footage of weather formations with Kings of Leon’s “Pyro” in a viral clip that eventually caught the band’s attention. “My family was already die-hard Weather Channel followers,” Caleb Followill said in a statement. “So we saw what they did with our song immediately and thought it was beautiful. We learned they were making music a larger part of what they do and we reached out immediately to try and do something together. They have been super cool to work with, and we hope this unlikely partnership keeps going because it makes a lot of sense to us.”
New Album and Single
“Cold Blue Dawn” follows “My Whole World,” which arrived earlier this month alongside the announcement of O My Beloved. Due November 6th through Love Tap Records/Virgin Music, the band’s 10th studio album marks their first full-length effort produced entirely by Kings of Leon themselves.
O My Beloved is available for pre-order ahead of its November 6th release. Listen to “Cold Blue Dawn” below.
The O My Beloved tracklist includes:
01. Intro
02. My Whole World
03. Cold Blue Dawn
04. The Hand
05. Rose
06. Make It Count
07. KOYSAR
08. Feel The Love
09. Blue Jeans and Diamonds
10. Warm Company
11. Forever Endeavor
12. Pretty Thing
13. Get You Down
In conclusion, Kings of Leon’s new single “Cold Blue Dawn” is an exciting preview of their upcoming album O My Beloved, and their collaboration with The Weather Channel is a unique and innovative approach to music promotion. With their new album set to release on November 6th, fans of the band are eagerly anticipating the full release of O My Beloved.
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