the killers - are they killer?

lolla: http://bit.ly/13CgCgq

They're back! Except, they're not.

https://www.alternativenation.net/the-killers-guitarist-backs-out-of-tour/

it's all the rage

https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/02/11/96/99-og.jpg

Hahah is that really their current lineup. What the hell.

i know right..

How are we feeling about the new one? I loved the singles but it's sounding a little thin to me at the moment.

Well, I caught them playing one of their new tracks on BBC Four last night and thought it sucked.

The singles really grew on me. Production seems kind of oppressive but all of their albums kind of grow on me. Flowers last solo record was pretty immediate and classic imo though.

Flowers seems to be looking the best he ever has been since ever.

new one's weird but then again i hated battle born the first time i heard it and now it's my favorite killers record

Fans of the I Love AFL board will be excited about them playing at the AFL Grand Final.

It sounds orright, btw.

Flowers seems to be looking the best he ever has been since ever.

― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, September 24, 2017 1:35 AM

Dangerously so.

they is written about

https://www.spin.com/featured/killers-wonderful-wonderful-cover-story-sept-2017/

fuckin Mormon

Are we killer or are we dancer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtF7_oZ65bw

featuring lindsey buckingham

instantly one of their best songs ever?????

fuuuuuck

simon!!!!!

listening now. KD lang and Weyes Blood and Blake Mills are slso on this album?!

*also lol

and yes this rules

i know he's credited with the solo but those quick acoustic strums in the chorus are soooo lindsey

nothing against Johnny Marr but I wish the Manics were the North American openers :( I'd consider going, assuming gigs start happening again by...October

i have listened to this six times in a row

also the lyrics are ABSOLUTE NONSENSE never change brandon flowers

fond memories of playing "Spaceman" for a songwriter friend of mine and asking her to interpret the lyrics, by the end we were almost teary with laughter

I had fun assembling this lil reverse chronological all-deep-cuts playlist for ppl who only know them as a (mostly pretty great) singles act

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QuvM3HibuCLu9etFakXrE?si=ZMTSGlDYTASXBnvnsZBhTg

Yes!! That wee guitar strum sounds like She Sells Sanctuary

oh my god this song lmao

i love it when this ridiculous band hits the mark so well, this is one of their best

Simon you forgot “Spaceship Adventure” from Yo Gabba Gabba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nx24VAjK6Q

shaping up to be the best killers record

lol that sleeve

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7jCzWwbxw

three for three!

this is gonna be their best album????????

also alert imago i guess because weyes blood has a writing credit on one of the album tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-2jJq7Z7Qs

this is absolutely going to be their best album by a fair way

It is.

have you got a review copy? i'm glad to hear the singles aren't a fluke then

Yep. They're as ridiculous as ever but more consistent about it.

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?

it's good!

alfred as usual that is one hell of a review

thank you!

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.

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.

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.

this album is Ridiculous

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."

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