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It’s been a busy month for music!
Just like the feeling you get when you lay your second-to-last Uno card down thinking it’s all over for your competitor, it just keeps on going.
With new releases out from Coldplay (their last as a group?), Snow Patrol, Keane, Guns n’ Roses (14 years ‘late’), AC/DC, Metallica, and Oasis, the itunes store is probably spinning into hyper-drive.
So let’s spin the latest release from Las Vegas’ The Killers, which conveniently happens to be the topic of timinganddelivery.com soundcheck #11, and see what happens!
The Killers (Day & Age) : I’m a fan of the 80’s, particularly now. I mean sure, synth pop, break dancing, and neon everything had its appeal back in the day. But to bring it back now, in measured fashion, such that you can listen to it without feeling like you’re at a junior high school dance and wouldn’t be ashamed to blast this out of you ipod dock (or other digital music ghetto blaster equivalent), is epic. Enter The Killers (and their latest album, Day & Age) and their never-ending quest to make the synthesizer cool again – and more power to them!
Tim Horan from The Telegraph had an interesting perspective on Day & Age, and The Killers in general, which I’m going to disagree with completely. It goes a little something like this:
But will it [The Killers ‘thing’] endure? Somehow I doubt it. The Killers experience never quite escapes that trip-to-Las-Vegas sensation - instant sensory gratification, followed by a strangely hollow feeling.
The Killers have a way, in my mind, of packing their offerings with trance-like hooks that, unintelligible lyrics or not, are catchy…and make you wanna buy their stuff! Pretty good business, for both sides.
The debate over whether or not the song ‘Human’ (the first track you should download, by the way) has Brandon Flowers singing ‘dancer’ instead of ‘dancers’ or ‘denser’, shouldn’t preclude you from getting out there are getting this thing. It’s a strong package and rivals the musical nuggets from Sam’s Town. Hot Fuss, their first album, still is my top pick, however.
Flowers and the boys have also put some creative firepower into the track ‘This is Your Life’ and I’m sure as I listen to more of it (only had it for a few days now), others will surface…they always do.
darren
