Kings of Le-YAWN

Only By The Night is just a boring album. There are some interesting parts to it and it hits third gear a lot, but it never gets firmly into fourth, let alone fifth or sixth. it just stalls out, repeating the same, crescendo building blandness that i've kind of come to expect from them. I heard their new radio single and thought, okay, that's catchy. There's a few more songs that are sorta catchy, but

1. They don't build on each other
2. They sound really similar
3. They're ultimately musically uninteresting and uninventive
4. They never make that jump to foot tapping, gas-pedal-pushing, finger drumming goodness.
5. Sex on Fire is a voice change away from being an 80's pop hit. Replace the singer with Brian Wilson or Rod Stewart and big hair and tight acid washed jeans with neon scrunchies and tied off bandana's will jump into your head.
   

The album just lacks interesting songs and i can't really recommend it.

Artist: Kings of Leon
Album: Only By the Night
Best Song: Sex on Fire
Overall: 4
Play If You Like: boring music. There, i said it.