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| Artist: The Killers
Label: Island Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 23
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001219702
UPC: 602517872875
EAN: 0602517872875
ASIN: B001FWRZ46
Release Date: November 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Losing Touch | | • | Human | | • | Spaceman | | • | Joy Ride | | • | A Dustland Fairytale | | • | This Is Your Life | | • | I Can't Stay | | • | Neon Tiger | | • | The World We Live In | | • | Goodnight, Travel Well |
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Album Description
Four years after the release of their landmark debut in 2004, MTV VMA Award-winning, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum Island Records group The Killers have completed their fourth album - and first new studio album in two years - DAY & AGE, featuring the new single, "Human" debuting worldwide September 22nd, while the digital single will be released September 30th. The new album hits stores November 25th - two days before Thanksgiving. DAY & AGE was produced by Stuart Price, a key figure in electronic music (Les Rhythmes Digitales) who previously worked with The Killers on "Don't Shoot Me Santa," their 2007 Christmas single; as well as music on their 2007 compilation, Sawdust. Over the past five years, Price has worked as a producer, mixer, programmer, and keyboardist, including The Killers' "Mr Brightside" remix which was Grammy Nominated. The Killers - Brandon Flowers on vocals and keyboards, guitarist David Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer, and drummer Ronnie Vannucci - found time to complete their new album while also wrapping up their biggest summer rock festival season in the U.S. and abroad. Historic headlining gigs at England's prestigious Leeds and Reading fests coincided with an appearance on the cover of NME's August 8th issue. Earlier in 2008, the Killers took home top honors for Best Band of the Year and Best Track of the Year ("Tranquilize") at the annual NME Awards USA gala, at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on April 23rd. DAY & AGE comes one year after the release of Sawdust (November 2007), a 17-song collection of previously unreleased session tracks, B-sides, rarities and one-offs. The album was assembled at a recording studio in New York's Hell's Kitchen, where the Killers worked with Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Lou Reed two recordings. Two singles and videos were issued: "Shadowplay" (from the motion picture soundtrack of Control, Anton Corbijn's biopic of Ian Curtis), and "Tranquilize". The Killers' RIAA platinum second album Sam's Town (October 2006) debuted at #2 and spun off two hit singles: the #1 Modern Rock "When You Were Young," nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Short Form Music Video; and "Read My Mind," the band's first #1 at Triple-A. Their worldwide 5 million-selling debut Hot Fuss (June 2004) was the longest-running rock album inside the top 50 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for all of 2005, logging 94 weeks on the chart - 53 of those inside the Top 50. The album spun off four solid hit singles - the Grammy-nominated anthem, "Somebody Told Me," the VMA-winning (and Grammy-nominated) "Mr. Brightside," the Modern rock hit "Smile Like You Mean It," and the Grammy-nominated "All These Things That I've Done."
Album Description
Inspiration has never eluded Las Vegas' The Killers, and it's a damn good thing it hasn't, because their 2008 record, their third studio album entitled Day & Age, is full of their finest songs to date. Together with bassist Mark Stoermer, guitarist Dave Keuning, and drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Flowers helped to mold the album into ten songs that work best together as a whole, each individually describing an evolution of the Las Vegas band's sound. "We're always pushing ourselves," says Stoermer, "and there's a lot of diversity here-from anthemic rock to dance songs." Flowers adds: "We felt like Sam's Town was a continuation of Hot Fuss, and we feel like this is a continuation of Sam's Town.'
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| Customer Reviews: Read 93 more reviews...
 It's Very Over January 9, 2009
Michael D. Blatt (HAMMONDSPORT, NY USA)
"My signs are Vital" as lyrics?
Give me a break - I'm not a soldier but I got soul was the highpoint of this soon to be forgotten band.
 Best Killers album yet! January 8, 2009
S. Thomson
I really enjoyed listening to this cd. In my opinion it's their best work yet. I hope they combine all the elements from their 3 albums to make the fourth one. I can't wait for what they bring out next.
Glamour and Glitz as only The Killers could provide us.... January 7, 2009
Gina J. Range (Pennsylvania, USA)
I'll start my review off by saying, there are two camps when it comes to Killers' fans and critics, those who take the band seriously, and others who just think they are campy fun. While I'll agree they can be a division of both, I take the Killers and what they have done for modern music, quite seriously.
Upon first listen of When You Were Young, I hated it. I didn't get it. Many plays and radio listens later, I couldn't get the line, 'he doesn't look a thing like Jesus' out of my mind, and in that moment, Sam's Town became my record of 2006.
Sam's Town left me thinking, what will this band do next? What can they do to surprise me even further? That's when Human hit the airwaves. To say that I was less than thrilled with that song would be putting it mildly. But, like my slow growing love affair with When You Were Young, I found myself constantly thinking of the song, and then singing the line, 'on my knees, looking for the answer'....and then of course, the now infamous line, 'are we human, or are we dancer'. With that, my anticipation for Day & Age grew.
After the lush rocking of Sam's Town, one that found its footing only months after critics disgarded it, and fans' perplexed views subsided, The Killers return to the musical masses with their latest release; Day & Age. The title itself creeps up in a couple of the songs from the record, but ultimately, the title is almost like a self-proclaiming admittance to the fact that for a rock band to thrive in this day and age is almost impossible.
So what does a band like the Killers decide to do? They decide to dance it out and take us along for the Joyride. Truth be told, this record is a hard pill for many of us who found Sam's Town to be one of the most fantabulous rock and roll releases of 2006-- not to say that The Killers have lost their rock and roll edge. Not at all. More so to say, they've expanded and instead of staying in the box, they've decided to just keep moving. As many take this record as a follow up to Hot Fuss-- some will be disappointed, for it is not. Yes. It is rooted in dancy grooves and swirling melodies, however, this is a band that has grown up from the fantasies of murderous relationships and such. Songs like Losing Touch where the sound of the sax reminds one of Bowie's Changes, and with lyrics that are as sarcastic and back-biting as those of Dylan's Positively 4th St., show the Killers taking an unshakable stand as a band that has cast all to the wind, critics be damned.
While Joyride might remind everyone of disco balls and roller bogie, I find it to be one of the more light hearted songs on the record. While Day & Age is said by the band, to be rooted in fun, many of the songs are just full of sincere emotion. Goodnight Travel Well, is an atmospheric number the closes out the entire record, and one that clearly is an open good-bye letter to a loved one. Then there are songs like Neon Tiger, which on first listen might sound silly with all of it's talk of glamour and glitz, but then upon closer evaluation, is a song where it's clear that Brandon Flowers is clearly giving himself a daily affirmation or a matra-- not to let the words or expectations of others 'cage' or even 'save' him. There is a touching vibration to his voice when he sings the line, "I'm begging you Neon Tiger, run..."
While Day & Age is surprisingly serious, it does have those light moments. Spaceman, an immeidate fan favorite since they first performed it back in October before the song's official release, has just enough pop and bop to get the masses singing at every concert. While the lyrics speak on alien abduction-- that's right, alien abuduction. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the music industry and the promises that it makes, and when Flowers sings the line "I changed my mind" after he realized all that he was in for, you get the idea that they have finally been let in on all the jokes and happenings at their expense, and they are finally taking stock, and evaluating all that's happening or being done on their behalf.
Human, the lead single, is the one that threw many for a loop. It's poppy, it's dancy, and the guitar sounds like it isn't there. But, there in lies the magic of this piece of pop perfection, the guitar is there. Based on some ramblings of Hunter S. Thompson, I'll take Brandon Flowers' lyrics over having to read one of Thompson's works-- give me Fitzgerald any day. All jokes aside, Human turns out to be a great work, and surprisingly, the right first single from this record. It has the immeidate hook, line, and sinker....are we human, or are we dancer? And with beats like this, one begs to ask, why on earth can't we be both human and dancer?
While songs like Dustland Fairytale takes a page out of the Sam's Town like story telling that we found in songs like Read My Mind, it is a song that merits on its own due to the musical changes that help tie the lyrics together perfectly. But going back to the sweeping closer, Goodnight Travel Well, it's apparent that the Killers have finally found their voice. While the critics have actually chosen to love this album, the Killers have yet again been accused of alienating some of the fans who just want more Hot Fuss, or who had bought into the fantasy of Sam's Town and those swirling guitars.
Have they alienated some with Day & Age? Quite possibly-- yes. Should they have taken another route with this record? Abosolutely not. Day & Age might be a slow burner to most, but that is the standard for every record produced by this band.
The growth and progression of The Killers as a band that gels together musically shows itself well all throughout Day & Age. It no longer is about guitar solos, or over the top synths, but more about great musicianship, and making songs that last. Songs that can fill a room up...or a concert arena.
And on those counts, the Killers have succeeded yet again. Day & Age is full of songs big enough to fill up a concert arena, and catchy enough to have us all singing along.
In the midst of the offerings we have today in modern music, outside of all the indie darlings that critics go on about, but that many of us cannot get into, The Killers strike a balance of artistry and musicianship, that explains their mass appeal in the world today.
Music today is so mediorcre-- so when bands like The Killers come along and try to mix it up, I can be nothing less than thankful, and nothing more than pleased. The title Day & Age, sort of threw me, but when you look at the times we live in, and everything happening in the world around us, the title fits.
I want a new day and age, where music matters again and artists really try to be creative-- not just try to make the next radio friendly hit. The industry has good artists fooled into thinking that they've got to flip the script on what they set out to do creatively in order to be successful. My greatest example of this is Kings of Leon, one of my favorite bands of all time, Sex on Fire is a number one radio song, but it is by no means one of the greatest songs that band has ever done. That sell-out was disheartning for me.
The Killers' latest might not be for everyone, but its just what the music industry needs right now to remind everyone that music is about progression and experimenting with sound. While of their contemporaries are compared to The Killers, no other band really sounds just like the Killers. And, while the Killers have many influences that flourish and can be heard in different aspects of some of their songs, the Killers always wind up (thankfully) sounding like nothing less than the band they intended themselves to be. The Killers always sound like the Killers....and on Day & Age, while a record full of variations on sound and music, this record is very much The Killers that we all grew to know and love...with a little extra glamour and glitz thrown in for good measure. They are from Vegas after all....
 Nah, Not Really January 7, 2009
dogsoldier (Borderlands)
This album simply doesn't stand up to the brilliance of "Hot Fuss", the sketchy but strong "Sam's Town," or even the hits-and-misses of "Sawdust." SPIN Magazine doesn't even include it in their Top 40 of 2008, and though I don't know their reasoning (other than there are obviously 40 better albums out there this year!!), I find the songwriting meanders, production values are slicker than ever yet sound (to me) increasingly soulless, and there is no clear hit single. Don't get me wrong--a band doesn't need and maybe shouldn't even want a hit single, but from beginning to end, I think the songs sound much the same, with the same riffs and same flourishes. Don't get me wrong--I like the Killers and will almost certainly buy their next album, but this is not a worthy successor, I think, to "Sam's Town."
 next step in the grow of a good band January 6, 2009
Sarah C. Rowe
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first off should say I never thought that I would see this band make it to a third major release,after The Horrible (your mother should b beaten for allowing to make this cd ) last one...This is a well structured cd ,it does lose some steam about four songs in but then picks up and closes strong ..this should of been the second cd or the second cd of atwo disc set for the second release Sams town..then again that one really sucked..Here you hear a growth of the pop sound they are cultivating..that is not bad to call something pop by the way..If you use an i-pod there are enough here to make you happy ,if you are like me and test all music out in the car..it is a really good disc and money well spent..If you are wanting high art rock or head music(i.e radio head or gaslight anthem ,then move on ...if you want a nice change of pace to mix in then here is a cd for you.
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