i love it when this ridiculous band hits the mark so well, this is one of their best
― ufo, Friday, 13 March 2020 06:47 (four years ago) link
Simon you forgot “Spaceship Adventure” from Yo Gabba Gabba
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nx24VAjK6Q
shaping up to be the best killers record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 April 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
lol that sleeve
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 April 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
this rules and the production is the best they've ever sounded. hope they can keep it up for the rest of the album even though they've never managed much consistency before
― ufo, Friday, 24 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7jCzWwbxw
three for three!
― ufo, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
this is gonna be their best album????????
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
also alert imago i guess because weyes blood has a writing credit on one of the album tracks
― ufo, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-2jJq7Z7Qs
this is absolutely going to be their best album by a fair way
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
It is.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:31 (three years ago) link
have you got a review copy? i'm glad to hear the singles aren't a fluke then
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
Yep. They're as ridiculous as ever but more consistent about it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
this album is so good! the start of "lightning fields" is so blue nile which i didn't expect at all. all the arrangements are so rich
it's just bizarre they a released an album so clearly their best at this point in their career, a fair way past their commercial peak. like, who does that?
― ufo, Thursday, 20 August 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
it's good!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 August 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
alfred as usual that is one hell of a review
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 21 August 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
thank you!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 August 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
I was driving around and heard a very Springsteen-y song and it turned out to be a Killers track. I figured it was from the album where they went all Springsteen-y (Sam's Town? Is that a Killers album?), but unless I misheard it was new, so I guess they went all Springsteen-y again?
Anyway, I'm intrigued. The Killers are one of those bands (like, I dunno, Death Cab for Cutie) that have always released singles I'm happy to hear but no albums I want to listen to. But Pet Shop Boys meets Bruce Springsteen is a pretty unbeatable combination in the JiC household.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
i don't think they ever really stopped being springsteen-y once they started, but they're certainly better than ever at that on this album
this is the first time they've made a record that's all killer no filler and it's not just that it's more consistent, the arrangements are so much richer than anything they've done before.
― ufo, Friday, 21 August 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
Also sounds a whole lot like Future Islands (shared influences I'm sure, but still).
This is the first time that the Killers have sounded listenable to me.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 August 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
this album is Ridiculous
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 August 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
If I had a record store I would have a section that says "Ridiculous." And then when someone asks for a band like the Killers or Blue Oyster Cult (for example) I would say, oh, they're over there, under "Ridiculous."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
otm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 August 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
there's a total blue nile thing happening in "lightning fields"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 August 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
oh yeah ufo mentioned it upthread lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 August 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
at 3:19 in lightening fields, the song time-travels to a mid '90s alt-rock radio station.
― america's favorite (remy bean), Friday, 21 August 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
fire and bone is talking heads but david byrne is less of a dick
pls somebody remix 'my god' with erasure's 'always'
― america's favorite (remy bean), Friday, 21 August 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
listened to a bit, I hear quite a bit of the last The War on Drugs album, the synth Springsteen action
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 August 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
"always I wanna be with my god and make believe with my god and live in harmony, harmony, oh love!"
has a certain ring to it
― geoffreyess, Friday, 21 August 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
A couple of songs on this sound like the War On Drugs if dude were shameless instead of shy.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
Also, giving this album more attention right now, I think the title track kind of sucks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
for some reason I just....can't, with this one, at least not today
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
it's very impressive and i expect to love it eventually but i was feeling similarly
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
it's like they finally completed the killers mentaculus by locating all the correct/desired references but they're TOO in love with them to keep me immersed, or something like that
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
hmmm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
i don't think the last four tracks are quite as good as the first six but it's all good-to-great
― ufo, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
not that i want to do this, but I mean what the heck does the title even mean? a mirage ain't nothing but illusion, so is imploding a mirage supposed to mean collapsing a nothing back into a nothing?
seems like something a stoned 14-year old with a thesaurus would come up with when trying to generate a profundity? actually, yes, that is probably what the title is supposed to mean because 'stoned 14-year old with a thesaurus trying to generate profundity' is a explanation of this album.
alternatives title ideas: anti-hologram, phenomenology of nothing
― america's favorite (remy bean), Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
the mirage is a casino in las vegas. casinos are often demolished through implosion cf. the aladdin
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
i mean they probably are also gesturing at some metaphysical meaning but it really only makes sense literally
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
i saw an interview where flowers explained that it's a metaphor for his move away from las vegas but also the main theme of the album is something about helping his wife with her struggles with ptsd
this is the guy who gave us "are we human or are we dancer" so im honestly not looking for a lot of meaning
he also said in that interview that they've already made major progress on their next album while in quarantine
― ufo, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
y'all
we're debating Killers lyrics and intentions
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 August 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
Anyway, these are the songs I'd keep.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 August 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
Nice review!
The Desired Effect is such an overlooked album
― the article don, Saturday, 22 August 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
it was the first properly good brandon flowers album, this one's the second
"dying breed" does the krautrock springsteen thing better than any war on drugs song. i do kinda wish "lightning fields" stuck with its blue nile first minute instead of turning into a joshua tree-era u2 song. the end result is still good but what could have been!
― ufo, Saturday, 22 August 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
It won't be long before "My God" become my favorite Killers song; that is, if "Running Toward a Place" doesn't catch up.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 August 2020 12:04 (three years ago) link
― ufo
I was just going to ask about this. I've never really liked much for the band at all but The Desired Effect was brilliant. I listened to the last album hoping it would be more of the same but it didn't do anything for me. I guess I'll have to give this one a go.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
this album doesn't really have the same synth-dominated sound as the desired effect but it's another album of brandon flowers at his best so if you liked that one i'd expect there's probably a lot to like here too
https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-killers-to-release-another-new-album-in-2021-it-might-be-better-than-this-one-2735596
it's cool they're working with the same producers for their next album, they really seemed to have made a difference for this one so i'm looking forward to more
― ufo, Monday, 24 August 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
this album is very produced by jeff lynne without having been produced by jeff lynne
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 August 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
Lynne in 1990
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 August 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
oh yeah that's what i meant
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link