Reviews \ kings of leon debut new songs at tour opener! Scrobble songs to get recommendations on tracks, albums, and artists you'll love. Guitarist matthew followill, cousin of brothers caleb, nathan and jared followill, just welcomed a new baby with his wife johanna, and therefore will not join his band mates on their upcoming tour. Makes me want to hold her tight, never let her go. The names coming to town this week really don’t get much bigger. Top 10 best concerts of the week: Music by kings of leon has been featured in the boyhood soundtrack, big sky soundtrack and guitar hero 5 soundtrack. Kings of leon have discussed some of the songs they feel should never leave the setlist. The first four tracks roar straight out of the box. Menu icon a vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Menu icon a vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines.They were still a fairly anonymous act on Nashville’s club circuit when their earliest recordings caught fire across the Atlantic in 2003, and they’ve remained giants there ever since. with their fourth album, 2008’s “Only By the Night,” the U.K. Though they eventually broke through in the U.S. The last, “Walls,” arrived three weeks before the 2016 presidential election, and Followill says he was “kind of happy to not have a microphone in my hand” during the last few tumultuous years. “And it was important that it came out when it did.”Įven before it was delayed, “When You See Yourself” marked the longest gap between Kings of Leon albums. “We could have put that (song) out many, many times,” Followill says. Weeks later, they pulled up the footage and saw it in a new light. In the midst of a photo shoot, he asked Followill to sit on a “ratty couch” and play the song in one take. It was a spur-of-the-moment suggestion by the clip’s director, Casey McGrath. “That was kind of our way to give our fans a little something to chew on while we tried to figure out what we were going to do,” Followill says.īut it’s surprising to learn that even the video was recorded before the pandemic. “And I'll be holding on, hoping the sun comes shining through/ I'm going nowhere, if you got the time.” “It's a long hard road until I can get to you,” he sang.
was two weeks into lockdown – the band released a video under that name, with Followill performing “Supermarket” acoustically. Most fans probably know it as “Going Nowhere.” Last March – when much of the U.S. Another is “Supermarket,” a song Followill wrote more than a decade ago but hadn’t felt ready to put on an album until now. It’s one of several moments on “When You See Yourself” that feel eerily prophetic. “Waiting on the light of day/ Whole new kind of feeling is on the way/ I'm not scared of knowing if we’re ever getting out/ We could be here forever without a doubt.” “Waking early in the morning,” he sings on the track. And it meant something completely different than that.” … And then after (the pandemic) happened, I read the lyrics. “They obviously wanted to break out and go live a life, so they created this fantasy of where they wanted to go. “Echoing,” for example, was written about “a couple of people that were institutionalized,” Followill says. "But I felt like if I was writing it through a different lens, and about what I considered (to be) someone else, there was a lot more honesty that came out, and a lot more of myself, actually, shined through.” “I never wanted to write a song that was like, ‘Oh, woe is me, this is my life, this is my relationship,’" he says.
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On Friday, the band’s fans will finally see the full picture, with the release of album eight, “ When You See Yourself.” It’s a more personal, introspective turn for Followill and his bandmates (brothers Jared and Nathan Followill, with cousin Matthew), who grew from a rowdy garage rock act to arena commanders in their early years.Ĭaleb, the band’s principal songwriter, got to this point in a roundabout way: by writing about other people and characters. I felt like we had captured who we were in that moment.” I didn't want to go in there and tweak anything.
And when I listened to it, I was happy with what we had done. I put the album away for at least three months before I ever even listened to it. "It was a little difficult, but it gave us some time to really reflect.
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