The Killers - Day & Age.
few days before Christmas, while shopping at ASDA supermarket I went to the entertainment department, and there came the new Killers album Day & Age
. Mindful of their excellent debut
Hot Fuss, and disappointment with which I was hearing them second album Sam's Town
, I decided to see what was up, this time the quartet born in Las Vegas. The plate was bought and quickly rushed to the house, to verify it. An hour later, I could easily say that, unfortunately, but this album is a flop. But maybe from the beginning.
The Killers debut album Hot Fuss in 2004, then for me it was one of musical revelations. The team not particularly inventive, but his music contains an immense commercial potential of the (as he put his time Cuba Province), negligible percentage of the village that gave the kidnap. For a long time since I have not heard a rock band, whose entire board would be a big hit. With Hot Fuss meantime is the way things were. Everyone has heard often and is familiar with such numbers as Somebody Told Me, Mr Brightside and . On this record, there were plenty of hits, ranging from the best album opening track, I heard for years - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine . The Killers rock instrumentation used enriched keys straight from the eighties, which przywodziły think of the band New Order. We could hear the fascination of the group Queen, like the song All These Things That I've Done . Plate was also amazing and it's power It is next to the cool tunes, decided on its success and strength. Each piece was located aboard a huge energy, the songs were able to literally put a man on his feet. I was delighted and then waited impatiently for the next releases of the team.
Two years later he returned with The Killers album Sam's Town . The debut When You Were Young has a stylish debut, and only sharpened my appetite for it. Meanwhile, after hearing the whole I was devastated. Breakdown somewhere in the clutch, which give effect to the compositions from the debut, the band itself and seemed to forget that the best on the first disc are the numbers quick and the whole CD filled songs that long with a slug and do not in themselves have nothing that meant that we remember them one minute after the hearing. The Killers are still used guitars, but I definitely went in the direction of pop, which would not be a disadvantage if they had to take this step any idea. Takowego but failed and went out of this boring tripe like oil and bland mush. I must admit that today, in addition to the aforementioned single and a bonus piece Where The White Boys Dance not recall any song from the album. Well, maybe Read My Mind, but it's more because of the video, which some time buszował the music channels. Occupation was so huge that for the next Killers album I've waited longer - as it would turn out, quite rightly.
Go therefore to the merits, and therefore plate Day & Age. I do not know basically what I expected, because when I first heard on the radio promoting the CD single Human until shook his head disbelief. It was sad. Tumble in four years from the Somebody Told Me so low you need to know. The Killers are tried. Not discouraged, however, and in return got a fig. The opening track Losing Touch is a failure, like the following, the above mentioned singles Human . Above all, however, tell you one thing - forget about The Killers as a rock band - guitars riffowo treated almost nowhere on here does not, like the distortion. In return, we received a synth background that cry out for vengeance. It is better in the fourth, perhaps the best the disc number Joy Ride, which sounds like Abba with Cuban rhythms. Catchy song right away, has a cool chorus and cool at the moment we hear the saxophone inserts. Another number that as far as giving advice is marching This Is Your Life , even though the chorus here is quite trivial. I Can not Stay Latin rhythms it again and it seems that this is only an idea worthy of attention The Killers. Songs, which spared us the arrangement of sounds inspired by Modern Talking, the best weapon, but it is probably only surprise for the authors of the disc. Expiring correct part album (because we still have bonus track) Goodnight, Travel Well even I like, but too little happens in it, like the seven-track. These four songs are positive things on the album, but stand out on such a miserable problem is not the background, while the tracks from the debut of the compositions are missing a lot.
conclusion, the third album by The Killers is the second sprawiony me their profession. I wonder what they wanted this album to achieve, because I can think of only the position of team przygrywającego guests to dance on a cruise ship. If a they mean it, congratulations. But I suspect not. Only problem is that I am on the next Killers album is no longer tempt and suppose that the same thoughts of many of their existing audience. Therefore remains for us only to listen to Hot Fuss and say, what the team was an American quartet at the beginning of his artistic path.