James Arden checks out the garage rockers latest album.
The Christian rock band from Brighton bring religion to the masses.
Recipe for modern R'n'B album: liberal helpings of guest rappers and an overdose of sexual euphemisms.
Come Around Sundown is the fifth studio album from the Followill clan in just seven years. Hard working doesn’t seem to quite fit the bill for that kind of effort, especially considering the quality of these albums. Only by the Night, the fourth album really pushed the band into popularity and therefore some fans began to claim they had ‘sold out’. I for one disagreed with this, especially when you consider ‘Sex on Fire’ was nearly cut from the album as the boys don’t really like the track and without it Only by the Night is still a great album, coupled with the fact the band obviously doesn’t know what tracks are going to be big.
Come Around Sundown feels a little reminiscent of the unreleased tracks from Only by the Night, think along the lines of ‘17’, ‘Cold Desert’ and ‘Revelry’ (technically that one was released) but if you are thinking of strong drums, guitar rifts and Caleb’s haunting voice across all of it, you’re on the right lines of how the album seduces you. And, like any good seduction, it’s slow and best done in the dark.
A couple of listens in you will suddenly find yourself humming the tunes round the house and wanting to go back again and again, like when you can’t get that “someone” out of your head and you suddenly realise you’ve got a thing for them. ‘Radioactive,’ the first single from the album, is actually a lot different to the rest of the album, but it’s still good to hear the boys rock out.
Most of these tracks will sound best when echoing around a stadium and with the boys growing fame, they will be doing so soon on their tour in December. I’ve seen them live three times and recommend you go and see them, even at sixty notes.
Basically, it’s brilliant, whether you’ve listened to them from the start or not, that shouldn’t matter. Kings of Leon are still one of the best bands around and pushing for the world, looking to surely be up there with stadium killers like Muse and U2. Nothing less than rock’s hardest working band deserves, keep ‘em coming lads!
Like it? Try Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, The Heartbreakers.
Come Around Sundown - Out Now - ★★★★★
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