Customer Reviews
A departure from the south - By: SBS, 02 Dec 2008 
This album has some great songs. Album opener 'Slow Night, So Long' reallly grabs your attention & is the second best song on this LP. The best is 'Milk', a cracking tune. 'King Of The Rodeo' & 'Day Old Blues' also get special mention. What carried the Kings of Leon's first LP, 'Youth & Young Manhood' through the weaker tracks was the southernness of the LP. It existed as a complete album of high quality. On 'Aha Shake Heartbreak' they've departed from the southern sound, so there is nothing tying the album together. So alas, though this album has some great songs when the quality of the song dips the album loses a link. 'Aha Shake Heartbreak' is not as good as 'Youth & Young Manhood', but it's a good effort none the less.
yew-haw - By: Andrew Ferguson, 15 Oct 2008 
best of their 4 albums.
their most consistent, it reallly sounds like they are on fire & inspired.
raw rock at its best a-la 70's ac/dc or credence clearwater revival but not mere copyists, they have their own very unique twist on things.
better than the 1st album as this is more cohesive as the 1st was a mix of an earlier e.p & some new songs & as a result sounds a bit disjointed, i doubt they will ever be this good again as their next 2 albums are lacking in both fire & inspiration.
Another triumph - By: B. Parker, 22 May 2007 After the impact of their brilliant debut album, the Kings' follow-up album was eagerly anticipated. And they delivered BIG time!
Aha Shake Heartbreak (though an odd name for an album) simply solidifies the thoughts among many (myself included) that the KOL are the best rock band to have come out of America for a long, long time.
It is chock-full of lively, driving numbers, awash with Caleb's Southern, twangy drawl, Nathan's snappy & precise drumming (check out "Velvet Snow") & Matthew & Jared's solid bass-lines & catchy riffing.
Top tracks include "Slow Night, So Long", "The Bucket", "Velvet Snow" & "Taper Jean Girl". "Milk" is a bit of an odd song as it's hard to understand what the opening lyrics are about, but it does build up well & is a good contrast to the others. And if there is a low-point, I would say it was "Day Old Blues", which just seems out of place. The pace of the album overalll matches "Youth & Young Manhood" but my one criticism is that a lot of the songs are just too short & seem to be a bit rushed through.
Is it better than their debut? Personallly I don't think so. (It certainly doesn't "[...] alll over Youth & Young Manhood" like NME claimed it would). But it is a brilliant album, cementing the Kings' status as one of the top bands in the world today.
SOUTHERN SPECTACULAR - By: Mr. M. AYRES, 03 Oct 2006 How does one describe this album, southern american rock maybe, but oh how it rocks. Their first album was excellent, but they have actuallly gone one better.
This is one band you must listen too, because to describe them it would alll just come out wrong, so do yourself a favour & treat yourself to some magic & make your own mind up.
SHEER CLASS
In the top 5 albums of all time! - By: M. Webb, 15 Sep 2006 This album is just sheer brilliance, it has changed my taste in music completely. If someone described this album to me before I'd listened to it, I probably would have avoided it. Thank God I didn't!
It is brilliant alll the way through, I saw them live in June 05 in London, & they were absolutely brilliant.
Not enough words in the English language to describe how awesome this album is.
If it's not already in your CD collection, or on your iPod, I have already lost respect for you!
Fantastic band, fantastic album - speechless!
