Kings of Leon - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > Indie & Alternative
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-26-2013, 07:32 PM   #371 (permalink)
Groupie
 
itsmejoemarie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Philippines
Posts: 5
Default

I love Kings of Leon! Does anybody knows if they're doing their next album soon? Its been too long
__________________
"Just because you're nobody
It doesn't mean that you're no good" - The Specials
itsmejoemarie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-10-2021, 10:12 PM   #372 (permalink)
killedmyraindog
 
TheBig3's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posts: 11,172
Default

After reading the pitchfork review of their new album, I had to listen to it. Thankfully I got in a brawl with my fiance, which meant I got left alone for awhile and decided to try the album out to see if it was as bad as this review said.

No, it wasn't. It was fairly mediocre. Almost like an album full of non-singles. This record, When You See Yourself, sounds like Kings of Leon re-recorded Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Vampire Weekend produced it.

It can occasionally hove into that "Use Somebody" territory which is some of the worst modern rock has to offer, but most of the time it almost sounds like they went for a lo-fi feel - it isn't lo-fi - but it feels like that's that's the style they're cribbing from.

I'll give it a 6/10. Not great. But far from the depths of dreck this band is capable of.
__________________
I've moved to a new address
TheBig3 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-10-2021, 10:48 PM   #373 (permalink)
Slavic gay sauce
 
adidasss's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Abu Dhabi
Posts: 7,993
Default

Actually, if you look at the history of their reviews of KoL albums, that one ranks as one of their best apparently!

Giving it a listen now. Your description seems pretty accurate, listenable but not remarkable.

I should listen to their post Only by the night output, not sure I followed it. Still love the first two albums (which Pitchfork thoroughly disliked).
__________________
“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.

Last.fm
adidasss is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-11-2021, 10:44 AM   #374 (permalink)
ask me about cosmology
 
Mindy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Posts: 8,991
Default

They are releasing their new album as an NFT I think. Will be interesting to see how that works.
Mindy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-11-2021, 03:50 PM   #375 (permalink)
killedmyraindog
 
TheBig3's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posts: 11,172
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mindfulness View Post
They are releasing their new album as an NFT I think. Will be interesting to see how that works.
Any time you see a band get heat from something that isn't the music, you should be worried.

Secret albums
Multimedia releases
This crypto bull****

There's honestly in labor, there's a value in artists who are serious about their work. We pay you to make music, not to be the ****ing marketing department.
__________________
I've moved to a new address
TheBig3 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-16-2021, 01:52 AM   #376 (permalink)
Slavic gay sauce
 
adidasss's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Abu Dhabi
Posts: 7,993
Default

Ok so I forced myself to go through their whole discography and just to record my impressions:

Youth & Young Manhood (2003) - 4.5/5 - Just because they put a version of California waiting I think isn't as good as the one from the Holly Roller Novocaine EP. Also, I prefer the acoustic version of Talihina sky.
Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004) - 4.5/5
Because of the Times (2007) - 4/5
Only by the Night (2008) - 4/5
Come Around Sundown (2010) - 2/5
Mechanical Bull (2013) - 2.5/5
Walls (2016) - 2/5
When You See Yourself (2021) - 3/5

Basically I think they kind of lost it after Only by the night. And not because they radically changed directions, they just didn't produce any memorable songs, mostly it's just filler. Something you can put in the background and forget about as soon as you've heard it.

Btw, Golden restless age from WYSY sounds like Future islands.
__________________
“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.

Last.fm

Last edited by adidasss; 03-16-2021 at 02:04 AM.
adidasss is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-24-2021, 03:00 PM   #377 (permalink)
killedmyraindog
 
TheBig3's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posts: 11,172
Default

Yeah the Come Around Sundown album was a mashup of Creed and Foo Fights. I remember hearing "Use Somebody" and thinking "jesus, if they only had 1 honest friend."
__________________
I've moved to a new address
TheBig3 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply




© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.