release date: Sep. 18, 2012
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Steve Lillywhite, Damian Taylor (et al)
label: Island Records - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "Flesh and Bone" (live on Letterman) - 2. "Runaways" (4 / 5) - 3. "The Way It Was" - 6. "Deadlines and Commitments" - 7. "Miss Atomic Bomb"
Track highlights: 1. "Flesh and Bone" (live on Letterman) - 2. "Runaways" (4 / 5) - 3. "The Way It Was" - 6. "Deadlines and Commitments" - 7. "Miss Atomic Bomb"
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4th studio album by The Killers following four years after the band's previous studio album Day & Age (2008). Since that, they released the live album Live From the Royal Albert Hall (2009). The album features several names to the producer role with Steve Lillywhite on 6 out of a total of 12 tracks, Damian Taylor on 5, Brendan O'Brien on 4, and with the band, Stuart Price and Daniel Lanois all producing one track each. With the turn to both Lillywhite and O'Brien they sort of return to a more alt. rock sound than they intended with their previous album.
4th studio album by The Killers following four years after the band's previous studio album Day & Age (2008). Since that, they released the live album Live From the Royal Albert Hall (2009). The album features several names to the producer role with Steve Lillywhite on 6 out of a total of 12 tracks, Damian Taylor on 5, Brendan O'Brien on 4, and with the band, Stuart Price and Daniel Lanois all producing one track each. With the turn to both Lillywhite and O'Brien they sort of return to a more alt. rock sound than they intended with their previous album.
I think, the album betters Day & Age. Actually, it shows some of the same energy as the debut, only the style is more shaped in an American (say Bruce Springsteen) rock tradition here - often referred to as heartland rock. Tracks #2, #3, and #7 are included on the best of album Direct Hits (2013).
[ allmusic.com, Q Magazine 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
[ allmusic.com, Q Magazine 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
