Whenever a band is over hyped, i generally take a step back and if I'm going to get into them, i'll do it in my own time, and not when NME tells me i should. With Kings Of Leon I've believed them to be over hyped from the start. From what I've heard, the singles they've released etc etc, i was never really that impressed and i always summed up my simple analogy of the band to 'fucking hillbillies'I thought it was about time to perhaps give an album some of my time and base a real evaluation on a listen, so i decided to download the most recent album. 'Only by the night'. I wasn't gonna pay for it.
My initial thoughts on the Jesus freak clan band from the south are only reinforced on first and only listen. Imagine being shot in the chest with a shotgun and then while recovering in the hospital, a fat Axl Rose then appears posing as a doctor who then crawls upon your chest, and proceeds to flat out brick in your open wound while humming 'Paradise city' to himself. If this wasn't bad enough in itself, its proven fact that Axl has been eating nothing but jam sandwiches and pumpkins since 1995. Well, this band and album feels like that, but for your ears.
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