I’m probably very late with this since the new Kings of Leon album is blogged all over by now. Nevertheless, I just got into it…like yesterday. I didn’t really like Sex on Fire before that but yesterday something caught me.

Everyone compares this record to U2. Bullshit. Ok, not total bullshit but mainly. The only song that’s a bit embarassingly U2-like is Crawl. I’m not saying that the album is perfect except for this song. There are a couple of embarassing similarities: Coldplay, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie… This shows that band have changed a lot since Youth and Young Manhood. Actually, in spite of all the bad stuff, Only by the Night is better than their previous two records. They’ve never been my favourite band and I think they’ll never be. Couple cool songs, allright. I just don’t get it: how did they become this huge indie band from the southern rock thing? Nevermind, this record is like a decent 6/10 with Closer as an outstanding highlight. (Btw I realized how much I’m into cool opening songs.) You know, if you don’t worship them then you don’t get all angry and stuff and compare them furiously to cocksucking U2. Just skip a few songs. Like 17 or Notion. (They should make a successor to Red Morning Light instead.)

Kings of Leon - Closer [zshare] // [ysi]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am and is filed under kings of leon, us, rock, indie.