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1. Closer
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2. Crawl
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3. Sex On Fire
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4. Use Somebody
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5. Manhattan
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6. Revelry
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7. 17
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8. Notion
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9. I Want You
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10. Be Somebody
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11. Cold Desert
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Reviews
The Kings of Leon never made much hay with American audiences -- especially compared to the arena-sized fawning they get in England -- which perhaps explains their reinvention on Only by the Night, which sees them transform from Strokes also-rans to grandly reverberant howlers. It can seem a bit put-on (the overfed swagger of the first single, "Sex on Fire," is a clumsy pole-dancing anthem) and plodding ("Crawl"), but when they channel the sex-god Morrison complex, it might just charm off some low-rise denims.
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Free from their strict Pentecostal father, Kings of Leon's Followill brothers (plus cousin Matthew) spent their first two records establishing themselves as horny Nashville youngsters with a neo-garage-rock style that got them tagged as the "Southern Strokes." Nowadays, the Kings are feeling a different sound: Like last year's Because of the Times, Only by the Night is long on astral, arena-ready largeness, with blippy keyboards,... More > Read More Reviews on RollingStone.com
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- CHRISTIAN HOARD
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