| Louder Than Ever | |
| Cover: | Louder than Ever.jpg |
| Alt: | A lakefront beach background where the band's name is written in white capital letters and the song title is written in white chalk-line letters. |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Cold War Kids |
| Album: | Mine Is Yours |
| Released: | (ITunes)[1] |
| Recorded: | 2010 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Label: | Downtown, Interscope, V2 |
| Producer: | Jacquire King Cold War Kids |
| Chronology: | Cold War Kids |
| Prev Title: | Audience |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | Skip the Charades |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
"Louder Than Ever" is a song by American indie rock band Cold War Kids. The song was written by lead singer Nathan Willett. It's the second track off their third album Mine Is Yours (2011) and was released digitally as the debut single on December 14, 2010. It was officially released on January 24, 2011.
The song did decently in the US, peaking at numbers 31 and 48 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs charts respectively. A music video for the single was made and premiered in January 2011.
"Louder Than Ever" debuted on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart at number 37[2] and peaked at number 31, their fourth top 40 hit on that chart. It stayed on that chart for twelve weeks. It made its first appearance on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart at number 48 but fell off two weeks after.[3]
Directed by Vern Moen (who previously directed their video for "Audience"), the video tells a story about a model who's forced to change her appearance in order to appease the people handling her. The video was uploaded on the YouTube page of their record label's affiliate Fontana North on January 19, 2011.
Cold War Kids first performed "Louder Than Ever"[4] along with "Royal Blue"[5] on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on January 26, 2011.[6] They performed the song again on the Late Show with David Letterman on March 14, 2011[7] and on Last Call with Carson Daly on November 1, 2011.[8]