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Kings of Leon: Can We Please Have Fun review – polished but tired
The Nashville rockers still sound great, but their lyrics seem bereft of ideas
It adheres to the Nashville rockers’ favoured five-syllable album title structure, if that’s important to you, but is prickly and passive-aggressive coming from four middle-aged men. Actual Daydream finds unlikely concord between coastal post-punk and heartland MOR; Nothing to Do is a wrecking ball of pent-up aggression; and the guitars on Mustang are electrifying shards of sound propelling the song’s racked, feral hunger. This just about works for Ballerina Radio’s sketch of post-apocalyptic dystopia, but mostly evidences the familiar problems of a band 25 years into their career: at the peak of their playing power, yet blighted by a vastly diminished ability to write strong songs.
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