6.7
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#42,598
All Time
12
Tracks
“Teaming up with Harry Styles’ producer makes for some surprisingly sleek music”
“The family band sound their best in years on a punchy new album of beachside Southern rock.”
“Can We Please Have Fun is such a horrible phrase. It adheres to the Nashville rockers’ favoured five-syllable album title structure, if that’s important to you, but is prickly and passive-aggressive coming from four middle-aged men. Its intended message feels like inane boosterism given the state of the world; further proof of the quartet’s unending insularity. And why should rock be fun anyway? K”
“It feels like it’s been a long time since Kings Of Leon really revelled in recording an album together. Ever since ‘Only By The Night’ shot the Followills to the stadium-straddling heights of their peers (The Killers, Muse) in 2008, the demand for chart-hogging hits appeared to dictate the next four albums to the point where even the Tennessee quartet cried, ‘enough already!’ Well that, and the fa”
