When You See Yourself is not entirely without merit: The Bandit does a passable impression of Interpol’s sense of drama Echoing is suitably swashbuckling the tautness of Golden Restless Age turns back the clock. 100,000 People, meanwhile, has a laughably inane chorus in which Caleb Followill appears to be repeating “U2, U2, U2” over and over (on closer inspection, it’s probably “you do”, but clear enunciation has never been a strong point). news & press releases Kings Of Leon Release Eighth Studio Album When You See Yourself Kings Of Leon Release Official Video For New Song Echoing Kings Of. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Because Of The Times by Kings Of Leon. JanuKings of Leon, photo by Matthew Followill Kings of Leon have released two new songs, The Bandit and 100,000 People, which mark their first studio recordings since 2016’s. CREDIT: Getty Images Kings Of Leon are set to release their new album ‘When You See Yourself’ in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT). Sadly, their climate crisis message gets lost amid the wearyingly featureless mellow country rock. 3rd March 2021 Kings Of Leon perform live. After a partly successful reboot with 2016’s Walls, they attempt to build on that for their eighth album by using the same producer, Markus Dravs, but there’s only so much he can do when the raw material he’s working with so often falls short.Ī case in point is Claire and Eddie, which seems to find KoL nodding to big issues: “Fire’s gonna rage if people don’t change”, which makes a nice change to it being sex that’s on fire. Having appeared as genuinely exciting reinventors of southern rock for the Strokes generation on their first two albums, they swiftly traded it in for lumpen, witless, lowest-common-denominator arena rock, becoming standard bearers for lighter-waving celebrations of inarticulate oafishness. And while the tokens convey “ownership”, they don’t provide significant actual use, providing an explanation for why the Kings of Leon NFT comes with the addition of a decidedly non-digital vinyl copy of the album.T he career arc of Tennessee four-piece Kings of Leon has not been a pretty one. Just one work of art by Grimes, sold in 303 editions, produced an estimated 70 tonnes of CO2 emissions as it was turned into an NFT. On Monday, the artist and musician Grimes sold almost $6m of visual art in an NFT auction.īut the field has been criticised for its vast power use, and for the limited utility of the tokens themselves.
The track comes hand in hand with a film clip which features the band’s frontman Caleb Followill performing the track. Entdecken Sie Kings Of Leon Only By The Night Music CD Album Alternative Rock in der großen Auswahl bei eBay. KOL retained Dravs for this 2021 album and decided to delve a little further into atmospherics and mood, a move that.
Titled ‘Going Nowhere’, the acoustic number is the first release we’ve seen from the band since they dropped their seventh studio album WALLS in 2016. When You See Yourself is best seen as a continuation of Walls, the 2016 album Kings of Leon made with Markus Dravs, a producer best known for his Grammy-winning work with Arcade Fire and Coldplay.
The technology allows artists, musicians, and others to “wrap” digital goods in code which allows it to be bought and sold in a decentralised way, creating a fully digital replication of the traditional art market. Kings of Leon have come out of the woodwork to bring us a new track. The NFT sector has been booming over the past month, thanks to a spillover of interest from the wider cryptocurrency industry. When You See Yourself is Kings of Leons eighth full-length album and follows 2016s Walls. When they sell 100,000 at a dollar each, then they just made $100,000.” MaAfter four years, Kings of Leon has finally returned with their brand new album, When You See Yourself, and the guys celebrated during their iHeartRadio Album Release Party on album release day. “It’s early stages, but in the future, I think this will be how people release their tracks. “Over the last 20 years – two lost decades – we’ve seen the devaluation of music,” YellowHeart’s chief executive, Josh Katz, told Rolling Stone, which first reported the band’s plans. The latter will probably be sold for somewhat more, but while only six will be sold, a total of 18 will be minted, which the band will be able to sell off in the future. Published Wed, 4:36 PM EST Updated Thu, 11:44 AM EST.
The former token will be sold for $50 (£35.70), and comes with access to a digital download of the music and a vinyl, as well as other digital goods. Rock band Kings of Leon will release new album as an NFT, making it a digital collector's item.