Sam's Town
Much-maligned band follows the crossover hit Hot Fuss by switching its influences from the Cure and 1980s UK new wave to Bruce Springsteen and 1970s earnest U.S. classic rock.
The Peter Principle says that people tend to be promoted to their level of incompetence. The Killers are pop music's most recent victims of the truism. Of course, the band deserves a good chunk of blame for the sea of unreasonable responsibilities it's currently wading in (frontman Brandon Flowers did promise that Hot…
Note to <b>Brandon</b>; if you can’t even grow a proper beard, a shallow facade of an album isn’t going to help. Back to Plan A, please.
Not even the Killers, the champions of retro new wave, think that synth rock is music to be taken seriously, and Lord knows that this Vegas quartet wants to be taken seriously -- it's a byproduct of being taken far too seriously in the first place, a phenomenon that happened to the Killers after their not-bad-at-all 2004 debut album, Hot Fuss, was dubbed as the beginning of the next big thing by legions of critics and bloggers, all searching for something to talk about in the aftermath of the White Stripes and the Strokes.
<p>Las Vegas's poppy Anglophiles have been reborn to run. Happily, learns <strong>Dan Martin</strong>, they have taken their songs with them.</p>