grass_lazy: Come Around Sundown came around sunrise.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Come Around Sundown came around sunrise.

Today was the day. Kings of Leon released their 5th studio album in the UK and it will hit shelves in the US tomorrow. Come Around Sundown keeps in toe with all previous albums' five syllable titles and if you are like me, then the first thing you did this morning was download it off iTunes. I've given it a listen and can already flag Pony Up, Birthday and Mary, but will soak it up some more before I release a review.

The pressure was on the Nashville based group to produce some amazing sounds in this album. After exploding onto the commercial scene with singles Sex on Fire and Use Somebody off their 4th album Only By the Night in 2008, new fans were itching for this material. More scarily they face their harshest critics, those who have been with them since the release of Youth and Young Manhood in 2003. The weeks to come will be interesting in terms of how the album is received and a review is to follow shortly.

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The Sounds of Reason

On Music

I think you need to listen to music to understand the world. Every human is like this combination lock of experiences that is so unique and complex that it can never be cracked. With musical people, their lives play they’re instruments. With a band, there are a number of impossibly different people, channelling their lives into a line of music, which words can’t describe, but it shares something about that person. When these musicians make melodies and rhythms that complement one another and fit in, you get so much feeling and such a story conveyed that there are songs powerful enough to connect to your core. - Anon

“Music is what feelings sound like.” - Anon

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” - Sergei Rachmaninov

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo

Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou

On Whisky

"Whisky is liquid sunshine." - George Bernard Shaw

"There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky." – Scottish Proverb

"We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything — coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky." - W.C. Fields, 1880-1946

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whisky is barely enough.” –Mark Twain

On Style

Style is something that stays with you forever, it is part of who you are. Meanwhile fashion is a trend that you can follow, that is changing. Style is more the inner you, which radiates outwards whereas fashion is something you cover the outside with, hoping to affect your inner. - Quote adapted from an interview with Guerre