Sunday, September 12, 2010

Kings of Leon - "Radioactive" (single) (RCA Records, 2010)

Have Kings of Leon become the new U2 or Coldplay? "Radioactive," the surprisingly catchy and overall good first single from their upcoming fifth album Come Around Sundown is not totally redeeming. Like U2 and Coldplay, Kings of Leon still seem capable of creating a good hook but slather on arena-sized amounts of reverb to make the song sound unnecessarily huge. But regardless of that minor fault, "Radioactive" is still good enough to make me want to check out Kings of Leon's new album. I also still rather enjoy their album titles and quite dig their svelte new motif:

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