KINGS OF LEON. Bought this the other day at the Virgin Megastore (Val’s attempt to cheer me up on a pretty bleak day) and I am in LOVE with it. Three brothers and their cousin, raised by a touring Pentecostal evangelist, tear it up in an old-fashioned rock ‘n roll style. I’ve seen it called “Southern rock”, and that’s there (see the Allman Brothers Band, CCR, the films of Cameron Crowe), but there’s a great vibe running through it that feels more like the more recent back-to-basics feel of the Strokes/Hives/White Stripes/Coral/Music crowd. Rolling Stone loves them; Pitchfork thinks they’re treading water; see the video for “Molly’s Chambers” (in Real Audio format).