Kings of Leon release first EP in 20 years
Kings of Leon have surprise released an entire EP, titled simply EP #2. It marks their first EP in two decades.
The EP, which arrived on November 4th, includes four new tracks, titled ‘All The Little Sheep’, ‘To Space’, ‘Pit To The Ring’, and ‘The Wolf’.
The surprise four-track project marks the Grammy-winning Tennessee band’s first independent release on their own label, Love Tap Records, via Virgin Music. Each song is self-produced. It follows their last release, the 2024 album Can We Please Have Fun.
The band have also announced two shows to round out the end of the year. They will take place on December 30th and 31st at The Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas.
Recently, they released a collaborative single with country star, Zach Bryan, titled ‘We’re Onto Something’. Prior to this, the singer-songwriter had teamed up with the Kings of Leon frontman, Caleb Followill, for the soaring track ‘Bowery’.
Far Out wrote of Kings of Leon’s 2024 album, Can We Please Have Fun: “They ditched mainstream pop-rock tropes and actually tried to apply themselves in a manner aligned to the present post-punk boom. The results were fair, but incongruous. It was like your father trying on the latest young fashion trend, oddly pulling it off to an extent, but never convincingly enough for it to be ‘clothing’ rather than a ‘costume’.”
Earlier this year, the band had no choice but to cancel a run of UK and European shows after their frontman was involved in a “freak accident”. This injury, a broken foot sustained when playing with his kids in his garden, forced the band to rearrange a large chunk of shows, including a headline slot at the Lytham Festival in Lancashire, as well as a performance at Cardiff’s Blackweir Fields.
The frontman is now back to good health. Earlier last week, they teased the upcoming drop, dropping the image of the blue and red cover which depicts a repeated cherry pattern beneath their band name.
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