Album A Day, 01-01-2009
Every year as I work on my year end lists I end up stumbling across an album that I had bypassed earlier in the year for one reason or another (usually it gets lumped in with the indie stuff I ignore), and it ends up being incredible. Last year it was Jay-Z’s American Gangster. This year it appears to be Kings of Leon and their 2008 release Only By The Night. Suffice it to say, I was wowed listening to this record. It’s got it all; the atmospheric opener “Closer”, the rocking lead single “Sex on Fire”, and the balladry of “Use Somebody”. And that’s just in the first four tracks. Imagine how the full the rest of the album sounds. Kings of Leon take the ’90s blues-rock sound of The Black Crowes and The Black Keys and gives it a healthy shot of adrenaline and marinated in chrome. The result is a fun alternative rock record that needs to be heard again and again.
==TJ==
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