Kings of Leon to Release New Disc in September
Back in Beatles times, fans used to worry if their favorite bands went six months without releasing new material, but in the U2 era, you can wait three to four years and like it, consumer.
Well, Kings of Leon are bucking that by releasing their follow-up to Because of the Times, titled Only By the Night, a mere 18 months later. The Followills, who have family in town and spent their childhoods with their preacher dad on the circuit between OKC and Nashville, begin their tour this week at Glastonbury on Friday, and continue on throughout Europe during most of the summer.
Then, it is presumed, the States will get them. Something about Europe giving them a lot more love than they get here, but that undoubtedly will change.
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Okay – I’m not that lazy. RCA records says Sept. 22 or 23. I was a little disappointed in Because of the Times. It seems like everyone was trying to peg them down as the next Skynyrd or the Allman Bros. So what do they do? They decide to show everybody they’re not Skynyrd or the Allman Bros. by coming out with an album that sounds like… Van Halen? I hope Only By Night is a return to Aha Shake Heartbreak form. What say you, oh Static one?
What does it feel like to keel a man, Bootch?
Seriously, the Kings went from sounding like Strokes-meet-Allmans to U2-meets-Allmans on Because of the Times, and I did not find it disagreeable, but yeah, I miss the old school. Generally though, when bands go slick, they usually stay there, barring some kind of bizarre conversion.
To me, tho, there’s a mighty big divide between “Boy” U2 and “Pop” U2, the former being the best they’ve ever been. Which do you mean for the Kings? I haven’t heard it. I can’t imagine it being too slick and poppy by the looks of them.
Yes! Any word on a firm release date? I’m too lazy to look it up myself.