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Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum rockers Kings of Leon follow-up 2016's Walls, the quartet's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with their eighth studio album When You See Yourself. Recorded at Nashville's famed Blackbird Studios with Grammy Award-winning producer Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Florence + the Machine), the album sees the band entering 2021 with a modern bent on their sound as heard on the warm keyboard washed singles "The Bandit" and "100,000 People."
Frontman Caleb Followill explained to The Sun: "I try to write and convince myself that I'm writing about something else but a vein of my personal life flows through these songs. Sound-wise, Matthew really nerded out and found some cool vintage equipment. He was into organs and synthesizers as I was pulling teeth trying to get him to play more guitar! But when you hear that old equipment, it feels timeless and beautiful. A lot of the instruments on this album, you could've heard on Pink Floyd or Beatles albums. We really dug deep to find the proper equipment."
Frontman Caleb Followill explained to The Sun: "I try to write and convince myself that I'm writing about something else but a vein of my personal life flows through these songs. Sound-wise, Matthew really nerded out and found some cool vintage equipment. He was into organs and synthesizers as I was pulling teeth trying to get him to play more guitar! But when you hear that old equipment, it feels timeless and beautiful. A lot of the instruments on this album, you could've heard on Pink Floyd or Beatles albums. We really dug deep to find the proper equipment."