Sunset In July
by 311

Album: Universal Pulse (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • The first single from Omaha, Nebraska reggae rockers 311's 10th studio album, Universal Pulse, was inspired by the band's late evening summer gigs. It was first aired June 3, 2011 on Los Angeles radio station KROQ.
  • Singer-guitarist Nick Hexum explained the song's meaning to Spin magazine: "[It's] about how the more fun you have, the faster life flies by. Most nights in July we're on stage as the sun is setting. You can actually see the crowd losing their inhibitions as the daylight fades away. We get off on watching the crowd at our shows, which inspired the song's chorus. People in the first few rows look like they're in another dimension. Maybe they're high - but we like to think it's the power of music!"
  • Hexum told Spin he wrote the song "while speeding around Angeles National Forest. I would write a couple lines and then haul ass around mountain curves until the next line would come to me. It's a great way to write!"

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