Kings of Leon’s follow-up to their ’08 breakthrough, Only by the Night, doesn’t arrive until next week, but the Followill boys are offering up a free preview of the 13-track record in the meantime: Come Around Sundown is streaming in full on their site.
The album’s debut single/video, “Radioactive,” aside, there’s a humility to KoL’s latest effort, in which — surprisingly — they’ve taken the victory lap opportunity to instead reflect on their respectable journey to stadium rock stardom. That’s only a gut reaction, but hey, it’s nice to be caught off guard by a to-be-popular record for once and for all the right reasons.
*Update: Looks like KoL took down the stream from their site.