Kings Of Leon Walls (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold LP Jacket, Digital Download Card)

Kings Of Leon Walls (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold LP Jacket, Digital Download Card)It's easy to forget that when Kings of Leon broke through in 2008 with Only by the Night, they were already four albums deep into their career. Buoyed by the popularity of hits "Sex of Fire" and "Use Somebody," the Tennessee four piece transformed from ragged post punk upstarts into arbiters of anthemic mainstream rock uplift, exposing their abiding love for U2 in the process. In some ways, the tonal shift made sense to a band poised to storm the

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We are also happy be reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl

yet there's a casualness to his Submarine songs that keeps them from truly resonating

" The hard-rocking "Don't Be Afraid" closes the album

Turner and Kane often appear as debonair lounge lizards

Completely in sync with Green Day's grand vision

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Such sequencing suggests that Miller is more concerned with telling a narrative than presenting the nonstop party that the title Ultimate Hits suggests

is very much a rock record

It's an impressive feat of reinvention that manages to keep Vernon's emotional core fully intact no matter how far the music strays from established Bon Iver territory

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