08.09.08

It’s not for the cock, it’s for the taster

Posted in Artists, G-Town at 11:43 am by Gavin Williams

 

Kings of Leon

In these days of disposable music and ever evolving fashion, it takes a certain kind of band to steadily improve throughout their career to become stadium filling giants with their integrity still intact.

 While most bands of any considerable success are victims to wishy washy indecison or fall foul of fans when they become big, it really is a special band to achieve global success whilst getting continually better and never selling out. Enter that special band, Kings of Leon. On the 22nd of September, the creme of the crop of stadium bands will release their fourth album- “Only By The Night” and they’ve already let us have a couple of tasters, which is nice.

The first single will be “Sex on Fire” which is a driving, melencholy choice- almost sounding like all three of the previous albums rolled into one seemless, fist punching, tear jerking rock anthem.

Then there’s “Crawl”. Pretty muc picking up at the exact point “Becuase of the Times” left off, but with added balls and steel that they probably gained from becoming one of the biggest bands in the world. “Crawl” storms along, blasting out of you speakers and sees Caleb on great howling, yelping form as usual.

If these two songs act anything like an indicator of what’s to come, everyone’s in for a treat. This is a band on top of their game (though, there’s never been a point when they’ve not been on form has there..) unwilling to compromise or even sit back and relax.

Now that my gushing and over excited fan boy rambling is over, have a listen to the songs yo’ self.

 Crawl

Both songs can be heard here.

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