Only by the Night
RCA
Not only have Kings of Leon been able to do what such city cousins as The Strokes did not—that is, get better with every album—the Tennessee family band has helped show that Southern rock need not be rebel yells and boogie cliché. Caleb Followill may drawl his words, but the
band’s sound is post-CBGB perfection: tight, smart and sexy, full of inventive
cross-rhythms and irresistible tunes. The 43-minute Only by the Night—the band’s fourth album and
first without Ethan Johns behind the board—boasts new textural touches, such as
the hard electronic throb behind the biblebelt apocalypse of “Crawl.” Mostly,
though, the album enthralls through inspired songcraft, from the combustible
single “Sex on Fire” and tense, neon-lit “Closer” to the lighters-aloft ballad “Revelry.”
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