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It doesn't look as if this thread really got off the ground the last time, but I'm currently listening to their sophomore effort, Aha, Shake Heartbreak a lot, so I thought I'd revive.
There are any number of reasons not to trust Kings Of Leon as a band - the whole schtick about being the sons for the most part of a defrocked whisky preacher in the Deep South, raised in the back of Dad's cadillac, the rumours about their connection to the singer of The Mavericks, who wrote and performed 'Just Want To Dance The Night Away...' or whatever it was called from ten or so years ago - Apparently, this same sinister figure was responsible for most of their debut. And then there's the question of how a band with an average age of about Twenty manage to sound quite so sleazy and depraved.
I was pretty much held down and forced to listen to them by a friend of mine though, and was fairly amazed - I was expecting The Black Crowes on cheap biker speed, which to an extent is what they are, it's just that it's very good cheap biker speed. They're a bit like The Strokes with soul, Captain Beefheart having gone 'pop' on the basis that he could meet more gurlz that way, Big Star or The Rolling Stones pre the psychedelic errors of taste. And after those too. Basically, I can't recommend both of their albums highly enough, and if they are a bit trendy and I do get shot down in flames for being £50 man, checking the releases in the latest Uncut, I suppose I'll just about manage.
But what does anyone else think ?
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