| Product Summary | | Label: Rca Records | | UPC: 00828765239424 | | Release Date: 8/19/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60606772 | | Item#: MQWRX2 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 119 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Kings Of Leon: Caleb Followill (vocals, guitar); Matthew Followill (guitar); Jared Followill (bass); Nathan Followill (drums, background vocals). | | Additional personnel: Angelo (acoustic & electric guitar); Ethan Johns (guitar, Hammond B-3 organ, percussion). | | Recorded at Shangri-La Studios, Malibu, California; Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California; House Of Blues Studios, Memphis, Tennessee; Ocean Way Studios and GroundStar Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. | | Personnel: Caleb Followill (vocals); Matthew Followill (guitar); Richard Causon, Jared Followill (piano); Nathan Followill (drums, percussion, background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Ethan Johns. | | Recording information: Groundstar Studios, Nashville, TN; House of Blues Studios, Memphis, TN; Ocean Way Studios, Nashville, TN; Shangri-la Studios, Malibu, CA; Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, CA. | | Photographer: Colin Lane. | | Arrangers: Ethan Johns; Angelo. | | Though Kings of Leon hail from the South and boast a collective hirsute quality that would make CCR proud, they are neither Skynyrd-worshipping Southern rock revivalists nor country-tinged roots-rockers. Rather, their raw, shambling sound suggests a cross between the garage rock of the Strokes and White Stripes and the heartland sleaze-rock of Nashville Pussy. In fact, if the aforementioned garage types hadn't loosened up the music industry a bit, it would be hard to imagine a band as down-and-dirty as this foursome getting a major label deal. The songs aren't all blazing stompers; there are the occasional touches of acoustic guitar and piano and even a waltz tempo on one tune, but still in the same pointedly discombobulated spirit as the rockers. A hidden track on the end that sounds like EXILE-era Stones in heroin-country mode offers a hint to the Kings' deeper roots and leaves the option of sonic advancement open for the future. |
Producer: Ethan Johns; Angelo |
Engineer: Ethan Johns; King Williams |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/19/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 52394 | | Label : RCA Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00828765239424 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.107)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"Rolling Stone (9/4/03, p.138)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...The thrill is in the groove. Some of the time that means jacked-up garage punk...but the Kings are also a Southern rhythm section to the core..." Spin (8/03, pp.111-2)
- "...[Kings of Leon] bash and pop like they've been rock stars for years....drifts with the sort of slack backwoods passion Dylan found in Nashville skylines and the Stones saw in wild horses..." - Grade: B Entertainment Weekly (8/22-29/03, p.132)
- "...Nashville's Kings shake up [Southern rock's] rural tendencies with the clamor of garage rock, mixing compact chords, frantic leads, and bashing drums with frontman Caleb Followill's drawl..." - Rating: B Q (01/01/04, p.83)
- Ranked #4 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "[Who] would think a mix of Lynyrd Skynyrd-style boogie and New YOrk garage-punk could work this well?" Uncut (8/03, p.110)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...The kind of life-affirming, slack-strung Gibson SG, four-to-the-floor sonic blitz that makes you want to chain-smoke full-strength Chesterfields chased with lids of Hawaiian while swigging a court of Jim by the neck..." Magnet (9/03, p.105)
- "...With unlikely injections of Wet Willie and lyrical stories told in a drawled yell....[The Kings] were weaned on the car radio, grocery-store rock mags and hours sitting inside hot-ass laundromats..." Mojo (Publisher)
(01/01/04, p.59)
- Ranked #14 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003" Mojo (Publisher)
(9/03, p.104)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Pedal steel guitars beckon, suggesting that the Kings of Leon are more than the right band at the right time..." |
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