Born Free by Kid Rock
Born Free is American artist Kid Rock’s eighth studio album. It released on November 16, 2010 with the self titled track being it’s lead single. The album is a rock and roll collaboration produced by Rick Rubin featuring several high profile artists such as, T.I., Sheryl Crow, and Bob Seger. Kid Rock described it as "very organic blues based rock and roll". This album is Kid Rock's first to feature no Parental Advisory sticker. Cable network TBS used the title track, "Born Free", for its coverage of the 2010 Major League Baseball postseason. It was announced on June 16, 2011 that Born Free was certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipments in excess of one million copies. This gives Kid Rock his sixth Platinum album certification in the US. A Michigan only promotion was released with the album. It was a 4 song ep called "Racing Father Time" it feat. the songs The Midwest Fall and Forty as well has the demo of Slow My Roll and a remix of Lonely Road Of Faith.
With one 13-song exhalation, British singer-songwriter Florence Welch unleashed her siren-call of a voice—and announced her arrival as one of Britain’s most singular modern-day talents—on 2009’s <i>Lungs</i>. Though the quirkily named Florence + the Machine was very much of the 2000s and became an instant staple of that era’s UK indie scene, the nature-loving mysticism and wordy lyrics throughout <i>Lungs</i> established Welch as more of a modern-day Fiona Apple or Kate Bush. Though released by a major label, <i>Lungs</i> feels curiously DIY—sounding almost like demos by your favourite local songwriter. But Welch was too talented to be playing in dark bars, and too angelic to be busking in her flowing dresses. The supersized emotions found on <i>Lungs</i> were born from the devastation of a breakup, one that’s examined and explored in often roof-raising alt-pop. “The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out/You left me in the dark,” Welch wails like a banshee on the monumental “Cosmic Love”. And on the suspicious “I’m Not Calling You a Liar”, as well as the gothic “Howl”, she steeps in the pain of lost love. Everything about <i>Lungs</i> creates an aesthetic, and a world, that feels witchy, dark,and sometimes unhinged, whether it’s the album’s mythic artwork, or the haunting lyrics on “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)”, one of its biggest singles (“This is a gift, it comes with a price/Who is the lamb, and who is the knife?”). But <i>Lungs</i> is by no means a strictly ethereal record: There’s the bratty indie-rock of “Kiss With a Fist” and the sonically angular and downright lyrically creepy “Girl With One Eye”. What holds all of <i>Lungs</i> together, though, is a quiet femininity paired with a triumphant attitude when you least expect it. If there’s one moment to take and treasure from <i>Lungs</i>, though, it’s “Dog Days Are Over”—an anthemic, shooting star of a song. It’s a track that captures the overarching message of not just this otherworldly album, but also Welch’s artistic vision as a whole: the desire to confront one’s feelings—in fact, to roar at the sky about them—but to let that self-expression also be a work of art.
