Blog: DETOUR

Kings of Leon, Only By The Night (RCA, 2008) Like the rest of America, we've always had a mild curiosity, but overall "meh" attitude towards Kings of Leon . When they first hit in the summer of 2003, with Youth & Young Manhood , they were sporting Allman Brothers locks, their sisters' jeans, and spiky guitars laced with a Southern twang that pegged them as a hick-version of the Strokes (or, perhaps, if My Morning Jacket had jumped in a time machine and relocated to New York City [...]