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Track Listing
1. Closer
2. Crawl
3. Sex On Fire
4. Use Somebody
5. Manhattan
6. Revelry
7. 17
8. Notion
9. I Want You
10. Be Somebody
11. Cold Desert
Album Notes
Kings Of Leon: Caleb Followill (vocals, guitar); Matthew Followill (guitar, background vocals); Jared Followill (bass instrument, background vocals); Nathan Followill (drums, background vocals).
Personnel: Jacquire King , Angelo Petraglia (keyboard).
Audio Mixer: Jacquire King .
With their raw, organic sound, Tennessee's Kings of Leon emerged in 2003 as Southern rock for the indie-garage set, sort of a Strokes for the South. While there were hints of a new direction on their third album, BECAUSE OF THE TIMES, its follow-up, ONLY BY THE NIGHT, follows through with a near-reinvention of the Kings' sound. ONLY BY THE NIGHT could be mistaken for avant-indie cult heroes the Liars on a Southern vacation, as post-punk angularity, distorto-funk bass lines, and clattering percussion are processed through what sounds like the world's biggest fuzzbox. While there are old-glory moments of garagey abandon, most of these tracks sound like someone sat and carefully considered the best way to frame them. And that's the difference between making a good album and making a great one.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #1 in Clash's The 40 Best Albums of 2008 -- [With an] audacious palette of deep, dark and desolate sonic shades.
It conjures up images of a more refined band -- the songs have overall a slower pace, and so sounds more considered, more deliberate, more reflective.
3 stars out of 5 -- ONLY BY THE NIGHT is packed with songs about being rootless, alienated, misunderstood....It's impressive stuff.
Throughout NIGHT, frontman Caleb Followill wails forlornly about cheap thrills and true love while his two brothers (and a cousin) bash out spooky, raw-edged riffs that rarely go where you expect them to. -- Grade: B+
Ranked #21 in Spin's 40 Best Albums Of 2008 -- [T]hey've gradually swapped out their Strokes-via-Skynyrd posturing for U2-leaning arena rock.
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he Kings of Leon still rule with a messy hand, applying rough magic and blurry, slurred imagery to their swashbuckling rock.
Ranked #20 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- [I]t's a brighter, fuller Southern rock.
3 stars out of 5 -- ONLY BY THE NIGHT is long on astral, arena-ready largeness, with blippy keyboards, droney guitars and whoa-oh-oh backing vocals. Frontman Caleb Followill cranks up his Allman Brothers howl...
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