Artist: Kings Of Leon
Title: Mechanical Bull
Genre: Rock / Garage Rock / Southern Rock
Release Date: 20th September 2013
Label: Rca Int. (Sony Music)
Album Review
KINGS OF LEON is a band of three brothers and their cousins since you’ll see the same surnames bellow in the line-up info. They grew up in Tennessee, children of a preacher they learnt music skills out of church music. While they’re refreshingly not outright Christian band there’s no irritating need to shock either and the clean-cut feel about them even if they sung about dirtier topics and even if booze and conflicts thundered somewhat in the history of their band-existence yet, still they feel unsullied and they don’t really feel contrived.
Here with their sixth album ‘Mechanical Bull’ we have another solid release, so well suited to Sunday afternoons with its chilled out and yet rock-ish with the bluesy vibe tingling around and an album which sits somewhere between classical and southern rock and sounds like a bridge between being indie and mainstream band without a feel of a forced compromise. It kicks out with the rockiest song of them all, ‘Supersoaker’, a very pleasant affair and its catchiness connects it with their more mainstream songs whereas the rest of the album seeks more the roots and the way they’ve experimented with their sound in the past. Caleb’s raspy rugged vocal is really enjoyable and one finds foot unwittingly tapping to the rhythm throughout. Suited for long car journeys, time to relax and read some good novels.
Tracklist
01. Supersoaker
02. Rock City
03. Don’t Matter
04. Beautiful War
05. Temple
06. Wait For Me
07. Family Tree
08. Comeback Story
09. Tonight
10. Coming Back Again
11. On The Chin
12. Work On Me
13. Last Mile Home
Line-up
Caleb Followill – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Jared Followill – bass, backing vocals
Nathan Followill – drums, percussions, backing vocals
Mathew Followill – lead guitar, backing vocals
Websites
http://radioactive.kingsofleon.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/kingsofleon
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 9
Total: 8.5 / 10
