The strangeness of the pandemic seems to have bolstered the Followill clan – frontman Caleb, his brothers Nathan and Jared on drums and bass respectively, their cousin Matthew on guitar – in surprising ways. “We’re probably more excited than we normally would be,” Caleb tells us over the phone from Nashville, “because we’ve been sitting on a secret for a little while”. Some artists responded to the screech-and-halt state of the world by creating new music, but Kings Of Leon had already finished their eighth album – so they decided to make the most of it and take a year off. The once-moody young men who lived to spit and scream into a microphone are no more.
READ MORE: Kings Of Leon – ‘When You See Yourself’ review: more confident and comfortable than everĪnd so NME finds the band today, taking stock of the quiet few months just passed and the material they’ve been itching to give the world since before it all started funnier, calmer, more optimistic and confident than ever.Wouldn’t you seize the chance to recentre yourself and put things on pause for a little bit, if you could? The last 20 years had barely let Kings Of Leon come up for air, spinning between raucous recording sessions, high-octane tours and parties. The last 12 months have robbed so many people of so much – plans, hopes, ideas frozen in a moment defined by panic – but, somehow, four men from Nashville seem to have gained more than most.
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