Kings of Leon
"Because of the Times"
"Because of the Times"
With spooky charisma, a bag of snake-charmer riffs, and singer Caleb Followill's slurred sentences that suggest more than they spell out, the Kings tempered their usual blasts of woolly '70s bong-hit boogie with dark, ruminative wonder.
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- Top CD picks of 2007
- James Reed
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- Joan Anderman
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- Steve Greenlee
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- Scott Alarik
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- Jeremy Eichler
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- Christopher Muther
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- Siddhartha Mitter
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- Sarah Rodman
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- Complete list

