If grooves could kill
Inspiration has never eluded The Killers, and it’s a damn good thing it hasn’t, because the Las Vegas band’s newest record, their third studio album, “Day & Age,” is full of their finest songs to date.
“I think about moments when we were coming up with When You Were Young, or, in this case, Spaceman,” Brandon Flowers says. “If we’d decided at that moment, ‘Let’s go to the park,’ they might not have happened. It’s scary. It almost makes me not want to stop because I could be missing out on these wonderful songs. They’re out there for the taking — you’ve just got to grab them.”
Together with bassist Mark Stoermer, guitarist Dave Keuning, and drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Flowers helped to mold the album into 10 songs that work best together as a whole, each individually describing an evolution of the band’s sound. “We’re always pushing ourselves,” says Stoermer, “and there’s a lot of diversity here — from anthemic rock to dance songs.”
The new album sees The Killers experimenting with different instruments: I Can’t Stay has a tropical sound — thank the saxophone and steel drums — and, as the singer says, “could be the most perfect pop song we’ve ever written. Losing Touch, meanwhile, is a gorgeous uptempo track with bright horns and grim lyrics (“impending doom, it must be true/ I’m losing touch”) that lend it an ominous vibe. Spaceman, an unabashedly arena-sized glam-rock number whose associative lyrics reference, among other themes, alien abduction. (“We’ve been playing it between Read My Mind and Mr. Brightside, and it feels like it’s been there forever,” Flowers says.) More than anything, The Killers are excited for their fans to hear what they’ve been creating, though, says Stoermer. “We’re always a little nervous about whether people are going to like it.”
The newest album of The Killers, “Day & Age” is available at Astrovision, Odyssey, Music One and Fully Booked stores in standard CD and special Philippines edition. The songs in the album as well as their classic hits are also available via mobile downloads and also through legal internet downloads. Visit www.fliptunesplus.net for more information!
