![]() Twangy, erratic guitar riffs led by Jared Followill’s forceful bass power the upbeat tracks of “Heartbreak,” whereas their debut (as well as the wonderful “Holy Roller Novocaine” EP) was indebted to your standard alt-country-meets-alt-rock aesthetic.Īlthough the band has matured since 2003, their sound still has loose ends under lead-singer Caleb Followill’s incredibly affected vocals. The age-old comparisons to The Strokes that abounded after “Manhood” don’t apply here, as the band emerges with a sound that’s distinctly its own. At least this time around, they have more dynamic music. Two years after their hyped-up debut, “Young and Young Manhood,” the young men of Leon still have bad hair and bad album names. Another glaring problem is a big handful of lackluster, uninspired tunes (“Girl” is one of them) - though the album is saved from the abyss of mediocrity by bursts of melodic ingenuity. Not to say vulgarity is the issue on the Nashville-bred band’s sophomore effort, but unintelligible and mindless lyrics might be. ![]() But this is no Sunday school music, with lyrics like “C-nts watch their bodies, no room for make up” (“Taper Jean Girl”). Three out of the four members in Kings of Leon are brothers who grew up on the road with their traveling evangelical father (the other Leon is a cousin).
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