Come Around Sundown

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Released October 15, 2010 Label RCA Artist Kings Of Leon		Length 47:26 Come Around Sundown (2010) Mechanical Bull (2013) Release date 15 October 2010

Recorded February–June 2010 at Avatar in New York; Blackbird in Nashville, Tennessee Nominations Grammy Award for Best Rock Album Genres Rock music, Alternative rock, Southern rock, Rock and roll, Surf music Producers Jacquire King, Angelo Petraglia Similar Kings Of Leon albums, Rock and roll albums

Come Around Sundown is the fifth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon, released in Ireland, Australia and Germany on October 15, 2010, followed by releases in the UK on October 18 and North America on October 19. The official album covers and track list were revealed on September 3. The lead single, "Radioactive", along with its accompanying music video, premiered on September 8, on the Kings' official website. The following day, it received its official radio premiere on Australian radio.

The album debuted at number one in Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the UK, the album sold 183,000 units in its first week as well as breaking the record for biggest first week digital album sales by selling over 49,000 album downloads. It was the 11th biggest selling album of 2010 in the UK with 694,300 sales. On November 30, 2011, the album received a nomination at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album.

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Reception

Come Around Sundown has received generally positive reviews from critics. Sampling 27 reviews, the review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album a weighted average of 64/100. Rolling Stone magazine placed Come Around Sundown at #18 on their list of the Best Albums of 2010. Q Magazine also placed the album at #25 on their lists of the 50 Best Albums of 2010. However, the Kings of Leon did successfully set the record for the most weekly sales with 183,298 copies sold in one week in October 2010.

Track listing

All tracks written by Kings of Leon.

Personnel

Kings of Leon

Caleb Followill – lead and backing vocals, rhythm and acoustic guitar

Matthew Followill – lead guitar, synthesiser, piano, Wurlitzer, lap steel, backing vocals

Jared Followill – bass, synthesiser, piano, percussion, xylophone, Omnichord, backing vocals

Nathan Followill – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional personnel

Jacquire King – production, percussion, backing vocals

Angelo Petraglia – production, B3 organ, wurlitzer

Liam O'Neil – B3 organ, baritone and tenor sax, synthesiser, piano

Robert Mallory – fiddle

Krish Lingala – saxophone, synthesiser, theremin

Chris Coleman – trumpet, backing vocals

Mike Kezner – sitar, maracas

Ken Levitan & Andy Mendelsohn for Vector – management

Scott Clayton, CAA (USA) & Peter Nash (Rest of World) – booking

Songs

1The End4:24
2Radioactive3:26
3Pyro4:10

References

Come Around Sundown Wikipedia

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