Jonathan Cohen There once was a time, before Spotify, TikTok, Seamless, Peloton and NFTs, when it still wasn’t that out of the ordinary for a rock ’n’ roll band like Kings Of Leon to top charts all over the world with Actual Rock’n’Roll Songs™.
Now here we are in 2021, with the closest thing to guitar-based music on the Hot 100 being a re-record of a 13-year-old Taylor Swift track and Machine Gun Kelly’s emo/hip-hop/EDM hybrids.
Not even Luke Combs’ top 20 crossover country ballad “Better Together” has any guitar in it.Into this musical moment comes the eighth Kings of Leon album, “When You See Yourself,” the Tennessee band’s first in more than four years.
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