Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Kings Of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak
(Handmedown/RCA, 2004)
Gotta hand it to Nashville’s Followill boys: even their old records sound exciting.
When they first broke back in ’03, with their Furry Freak face fungus and Biblical nomenclature (Caleb Followill is straight outta Faulkner), Kings Of Leon looked like a trumped-up band making hay in the vacuum between Strokes albums. Yet their follow-up to 2003’s Youth And Young Manhood was an unexpectedly weird bolt from the blue, an ultimately outstanding crack at brokering an accord between spiky noo wave and fuzzy ’70s stoner rock. Sub-3-minute songs feel like urgent confessions, as Caleb Followill – as indistinct as King Of The Hill’s Boomhauer – recalls the occasion “I passed out in your garden” and that time “she saw my comb-over” (at least that’s what it sounds like). Along the way Razz rocks like Creedence on punk pills, Bucket is a heart-swelling mini-anthem that stops on a sixpence, and jittering Velvet Snow makes The Strokes sound like the ones who need to keep up.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 06/12/2007
Further Listening
Kings Of Leon – Because Of The Times (Columbia, 2007)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy & The Poor Boys (Fantasy, 1969)
Loudon Wainwright III – Album II (Atlantic, 1972)
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