Music review

KINGS OF LEON

With Deerhunter

At: TD Garden, Friday

The Nashville-born band Kings of Leon has, over the past 15 years, turned into one of rock’s 21st-century stalwarts. After breaking through in the early 2000s with taut rock offerings that combined Southern rock’s boogieing strut with garage rock’s guitar-buzz hyperactivity, the band — made up of three brothers and a cousin — became full-fledged pop forces in 2008. That year the band released its fourth album, “Only By The Night,’’ which contained two slow-burning odes to lust — the towering “Sex On Fire’’ and the top-ten come-on “Use Somebody.’’ Both those songs used the sultry growl of frontman Caleb Followill to great effect, placing it amid a backdrop of massive guitars and cavernous drums as a way of underlining each emotion, effectively directing listeners to those points when they should wave their hands in the air and “ohh, ohh’’ along with Followill and his bandmates.

Kings of Leon hasn’t had a big crossover hit since then, but the band has maintained a strong presence in the rock world, headlining festivals, remaining a steady draw on the arena circuit, and selling records even in the streaming-music age. On Friday night at TD Garden, the band ripped through a brisk set that showcased its seventh album “WALLS’’ while allowing members to showcase the stew of influences that helped guide the band toward its current station as reliable headliners.

Released in October, “WALLS’’ represented a demi-turn toward pop; the laid-back “Muchacho’’ is built around a dime store-synth beat, while the title track is a gently luminous ballad that showcases Followill’s tremulous emoting. What made Friday’s show compelling was how the band fleshed out those songs, and other tracks in its catalog, with details that hinted at its provenance — showcasing family-band vocal harmonies on its 2013 song “Comeback Story,’’ dredging its early hit “Molly’s Chambers’’ in swampy muck, puffing up the 2013 track “Supersoaker’’ into an arena-sized slice of post-punk. Even “Sex on Fire’’ got a tempo jolt that added to its urgency. At times, the show, which packed 26 songs into under two hours, felt like a whirlwind tour not just of Kings of Leon’s discography, but of the members’ record collections.

By the time it was over, after a rousing run through “Use Somebody’’ and a triumphant version of the “WALLS’’ anthem “Around the World’’ that was assisted by both crew members and confetti, the reasons for Kings of Leon’s ascent had been made clear. The band has swagger and hooks to spare, and the mebers’ attention to detail meant that even those people who knew the band’s body of work intimately could find something new amid the frantic riffing.

Maura Johnston can be reached at maura@maura.com.