 | Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings Of Leon
Publisher: Handmedown/RCA
Released on 01 November 2004
List Price: £16.99
Typecast them as rootin', tootin' cowboy rockers if you will, but Aha Shake Heartbreak shows the Kings Of Leon have more to offer than beardy rock classicism. Indeed, for all the talk of Neil Young or Creedence Clearwater Revival, the outfit this Nashville-based band of brothers (and one cousin) resembles most is New York new-wavers The Strokes: it's there in Nathan Followill's minimal, metronomic drum rhythms, there in Matthew Followill's spare guitar lines, and there in frontman Caleb Followill's insouciant, beer-chugging drawl. That said, brother Caleb's lyrical concerns are strictly of... Read More |
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