Youth & Young Manhood the Decade list. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Youth & Young Manhood Youth & Young Manhood is the debut album from American rock band Kings of Leon, released on July 7, 2003, in the United Kingdom and on August 19, 2003, in the United States. The title was taken from a drawing of the family tree of Moses, found on the inside of one of their Pentecostal preaching father's Bibles. Each branch contained a line that the band was quoted as saying could easily have passed for an album
Youth & Young Manhood genre, with "NME" hailing the album among the "best debuts of the past 10 years." AllMusic claimed the album wasn't "sonically adventurous", but that "in the new-millennium pop realm, some greasy licks sure sound good." James Hunter of "The Village Voice" called the album "2003's finest rock debut," saying the band had built off of its first EP. Greg Kot, writing in "Rolling Stone", declared that the band knew "when to lay back and let things simmer" as well as "when to jump up and testify with tambourines banging" in a favorable review. "Rolling Stone" critics named it the 10th-best