- alternative rock, southern rock, rock, indie rock
- 43 min
- 11 tracks
- RCA
Only by the Night is the fourth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon, released in September 2008 through RCA Records. Writing for the band's fourth album commenced just days after the release of their third, Because of the Times. The album was recorded by producers Jacquire King and Angelo Petraglia in April 2008 at Nashville's Blackbird Studio.
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Character
Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 63/100
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB−
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times2.5/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork3.8/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Spin4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Closer3:57
- 2Crawl4:06
- 3Sex on Fire3:23
- 4Use Somebody3:51
- 5Manhattan3:24
- 6Revelry3:22
- 7173:05
- 8Notion3:01
- 9I Want You5:07
- 10Be Somebody3:47
- 11Cold Desert5:35
11 tracks, 43 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Kings of Leon
- Label
- RCA
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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