Some consider the band's sixth album "Imploding the Mirage" to be extremely successful • The whole is a celebration of synth-pop, new wave and rock stadiums
A familiar sound from an eighties synthesizer opens, "Killers' sixth album," Imploding the Mirage ", and is not the only familiar thing this collection of songs offers. Those who have been following this band since its inception 19 years ago will surely recognize in seconds its distinctly striking sound from the first few seconds of songs like "My Own Soul's Warning" is a full, rich, very glam, even dramatic sound. And he is in every single track of this album, which some consider to be the band's most successful album in 14 years.
After a decade of pretty mediocre albums, it's clear that Brandon Flowers and friends have decided to gear up. Perhaps it is the closeness to the age of 40 that has rekindled a fire in him. Maybe it was, as he himself says in interviews, listening to the band's last Empire Empire weekend album that gave him the inspiration he used to get from the Strokes.
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way or another, as they close the second decade of their existence - Flowerers and his friends have released a live, kicking, full of intention and dripping emotion album. It's a string of "great" songs like the anthem "Blowback" and the pompous "Runnig Towards A Place", and it's all a kind of huge tribute to the huge chants that would have turned hits from the 80's into great and screaming works and later classics.
On the departure of veteran guitarist Dave Kyuning they manage to cover up with a host of interesting guests. Lindsay Buckingham, a Fleetwood Mac band member, signed the guitar solo on "Caution" (the best of the album's songs). Singer Kay Dee Lang contributes a voice in "" Lightning Fields "a piece that feels like a homage to Peter Gabriel. Even Adam Granducial, the man behind the band The war on, drugs joins the celebration, in an album that is all about a synth-pop celebration, New Wave and rock stadiums of the kind that just do not do here anymore. "Baby, we're an extinct species" they sing themselves on "." Dying Breed Walla are right.
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