Duran Duran New Single and Album

'Astronaut' achieves that perfect Duran balance of light and dark, upbeat and heavy: pop songs for the body and the brain that make you dance and think. And if those early sessions have that Riviera touch - songs like "Bedroom Toys" being, as Nick says, "pure Duran frivolity" - then subsequent material from Duran's eagerly awaited fourth LP such as "What Happens Tomorrow?", "Point Of No Return", "Still Breathing", "Finest Hour" and "Chains" are darker, heavier. That's because something happened within months of Duran's joyous reformation that cast a pall over proceedings: 9/11. And their music thereafter couldn't help but be affected by these cataclysmic world events.


;nspI.reu us to write Finest flout awe eoint'oi No re L Lee °tie F ice'j nN sLea ooing"irki3 album when the world was a rich, happy place. Then something happened that tilted everything. It was the biggest story in modem history. You've got to be affected." Continues John, "That's when we realised this was not just going to be an upbeat, optimistic record; that there would be more to it than that. But that ambiguity is very Duran: interesting songs with a worldview alongside seemingly senseless pop." Adds Roger: "'Taste' and 'Nice' were innocent. Then we went in a more serious, deeper direction. So there are two sides to the album: poppy and dark."
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