Only By the Night : Kings of Leon (Part II)

by Kyan.

The second half of the album begins with the track called ‘Revelry’, it wasn’t the love in the first ‘listen’ track personally, as somehow it lack the pump that I looked for in a single. But still, it wasn’t a bad one. Just that I still don’t get why they chose this to be their third single from the album. ‘17’ can be seen as one of their more settled music and it didn’t run wild or get really big like their featured singles, or perhaps some of the tracks in the first half of the album. And that continues with the next track, ‘Notion’, which still manages to showcase Caleb’s vocal. It wasn’t disappointing, just that it’s a bit underwhelming, somehow. And the mood started to get more and more settle, tend to get ‘lazy’ with ‘I Want You’. The contrast of the mood created by the music can’t be too much and imbalance or it will become the downfall for the entire album. And emotion started to be pump up with ‘Be Somebody’, with an interesting music arrangement, jumping of the beat from one speed to another. Another fresh one. The album ended perfectly with the last track, ‘Cold Dessert’; something that you would definitely put into your goodnight track list. It started perfectly and of course ended perfectly as well. The tracks in the album succeed in telling us who is Kings of Leon, in general.