Kings Of Leon have broken their silence to talk about making their new album ‘Come Around Sundown’.
Released on Monday, ‘Come Around Sundown’ is busy laying waste to the album chart. Kings Of Leon have never been so in demand, with their music blasting out of stereos across the entire country.
Yet the band have remained silent. On tour in their native United States, the Followills have declined interview requests, waiting until they can give British audiences their full attention at the end of the year.
With ‘Come Around Sundown’ becoming the fastest selling album of the year thus far, Kings Of Leon have broken their silence. In a bulletin issued to press, the band have answered a number of questions regarding their latest record.
Here’s a quick excerpt…
‘Radioactive’
Matthew: “Radioactive” is one of the first songs that we started on and it is wasn’t until the last week that anything came together. We just weren’t sure what was going to happen.
Jared: When we first started writing “Radioactive,” it was a song called “It’s Alright.” And literally, I think that it was either right after we wrote “Aha Shake Heartbreak” or during the writing of that record.
Caleb: And one night — we had been there all day, and Nathan had gone home. And Jared had gone home… and Angela had gone home. It was just me, Matthew and Jacquire. We were playing darts and I was pretty bummed that it wasn’t going to make the record ‘cause I thought it was strong. I said, “Hey, Jacquire, just record and I’m go in here and a do a thing” And I went in there and just, “The road is carved up yonder..” and just gave it a lot more space. And by doing that, it made the chorus so very powerful. The next day, we got in and I was like, “play that.” When he started playing it, Nathan, Jared and Angela — everyone walked in: “what is that? What is that song being sang very drunkenly?” And it ended up working. It ended up giving new life to the song.
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