![]() Only by the Night is actually a pretty good album on the whole. The newest release certainly hammers home that style and feeling. However, I've basically inferred that they've gone from the "garage to the arena," meaning their last album had a bit of U2-style epic rock songs and melodies. Having not heard much of their back catalog it's hard to know how much their sound has evolved over the course of the last number of years. Their 2007 release Because of the Times reached #1 on the UK charts upon its debut and made them stars in the process. Their road to success was somewhat backwards since they became more popular in Europe and the UK when they toured in support of U2 and The Strokes. Kudos to their booking agent! The quick bio/background on the band is they're 3 brothers and a first cousin from Tennessee, and they've released four albums since 2003. Either way, the two songs they performed in between some awful sketches (with the surprisingly disappointing James Franco) got me interested in them. This was probably the case because I never had any friends that said, "Ethan you HAVE to listen to the new Kings of Leon album." Maybe they didn't have reason to promote them. I had kinda heard of them but never really made any effort to check them out for one reason or another. Pretty much the only good thing that I took out of SNL last weekend (9/20) was a couple performances by the band Kings of Leon. ![]()
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