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Counting Crows
Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Out November 6th

"I have no grasp on whether anyone will like this," says Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows' fifth studio album, the band's first since 2002. "It's about some pretty unpleasant stuff." Recorded in New York and Berkeley, California, the disc is split into electric and acoustic halves to mirror sin and consequence. Saturday Nights chronicles Duritz's "disintegration and madness" over angry guitar blasts - "1492" finds him wasted and lonely in a bar in Milan, getting blown by a random girl - while the acoustic, folksy ballads on Sunday Mornings bare his grief over lost loves. "A lot of people involved with the band wanted the darker stuff off the record," says Duritz. "But if you don't go through the harder stuff, the second part isn't as powerful."

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"Cowboys" from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings

(courtesy of CountingCrows.com)