Day and Age

The Killers new CD came out a few weeks ago. I have listened to it a fair bit and am prepared to release a comprehensive review. So without further adieu:

The Killers: Day and Age

Track 1- Losing Touch

8.5/10

The Killers have a track record of having good opening tracks and this one is no exception. Catchy with blairing saxophones (these come up a few times) and an amazing guitar lead that only shows up at the end. The chorus is pretty dandy as well though this may just because I love the word "Vagabond".

Track 2- Human

7/10

This is the first single off the album. Its alright with catchieness bordering on Somebody Told Me, but then you hear the lyrics which ask the question "Are we human/Or are we dancer?"

Lead Singer Brendan Flowers claims that he doesn't have to make sense. I respectively disagree. Its things like this and saying Sam's Town will be the most important album in 20 years that makes people lose respect for your normally magnificant band.


Track 3- Spaceman

10/10

The first of three crowning moments of awesome on this cd, this is vintage Killers. Catchy, weird (its about alien abduction) and throwing out completely non-sensical bible references this is just fun. More so than Mr. Brightside even which when you think about it was a pretty freaking sad song.

This taking too long to write. I'm gonna cut the foreplay. The cd is really good, by far the best of 2008 an already excellent year for music with albums from Oasis and MGMT. The best three songs are the previously mentioned Spaceman, the 5th track called "A Dustland Fairytale" which sounds like the sequel to "When You Were Young" only with better lyrics. The other truly stand out song on it is the closig song entitled "Goodnight, Travel Well" which actually does not sound like a Killers song at all (much of the album is like this). Its slow, and mournful and about losing loved ones but ends with a true amount of epicness. According to Rolling Stone, the Killers kind of suck. Rolling Stone can blow me.

10/10