Can We Please Have Fun by Kings of Leon

Can We Please Have Fun, the ninth studio album from Kings of Leon, landed on May 10, 2024, and the title reads like a band giving itself permission. It was their first record not to come out on RCA, their label from the start, arriving instead through LoveTap Records and Capitol, with Kid Harpoon producing. The three Followill brothers, Caleb, Nathan and Jared, and their cousin Matthew sound looser than they have in years: the grooves bounce, the guitars jangle and twitch instead of reaching for the rafters, and "Mustang" gallops with a scrappy energy that recalls the kids from Mount Juliet, Tennessee, who started out in 1999 mixing Southern rock and garage rock with the blues. Coming three years after When You See Yourself, it's alternative rock that's finally allowed to grin.

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