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The Killers' new album Imploding the Mirage is OUT NOW
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Had the album on repeat all day, it's just so strong. Lightning Fields and My God along with Blowback really blow me away outside of the singles (of which I loved each one).
It's the first Killers album in a long time in which I don't skip any songs. Keeping the album down to 10 tight songs probably helps.
It's the first Killers album in a long time in which I don't skip any songs. Keeping the album down to 10 tight songs probably helps.
Feel like I'm going insane because I LOVE at least half of every other Killers album and everyone's talking about this one being great and straight up My God is the only song that elicits more than a shrug from me. The rest just feels like extremely overproduced Killers-by-Numbers.
This album keeps getting better with each spin. There's not a single dud to be found. The only song I dont love is Fire In Bone, but its still pretty good. The 4 song closer from Walking Towards A Place/My God/When The Dreams Run Dry/Imploding the Mirage is so fucking stellar.
This album is already at minimum EASILY in their top 3 albums with Hot Fuss and Sam's Town. Its so fucking good.
This album is already at minimum EASILY in their top 3 albums with Hot Fuss and Sam's Town. Its so fucking good.
I'm not in love with Blowback, but otherwise I feel the exact same as you. It's such a good album.
Good little piece from NME
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Look like Stoermer played bass AND guitar on the album:
Looks like Keuning is still a prima donna (that Vannucci ether!):
And sounds like another album is coming in 2021:
The Killers: “Music made it possible for me to dream”
The Killers are back with a career-high record that encompasses their devout belief in truth, honesty and always embracing emotion.
www.nme.com
Look like Stoermer played bass AND guitar on the album:
Looks like Keuning is still a prima donna (that Vannucci ether!):
And sounds like another album is coming in 2021:
Wow, another album in less than a year would be weird lol. I'll take it, but I feel like there was a five-year gap between Day & Age and Battle Born, or maybe it's BB and WW? lol. So it'll be weird getting new music so fast.Good little piece from NME
The Killers: “Music made it possible for me to dream”
The Killers are back with a career-high record that encompasses their devout belief in truth, honesty and always embracing emotion.
Look like Stoermer played bass AND guitar on the album:
Looks like Keuning is still a prima donna (that Vannucci ether!):
And sounds like another album is coming in 2021:
They had 2 verrrry long breaks. Hot Fuss to Sam's Town was 2 years, then another 2 to Day & Age, then long break #1 of 4 years to Battle Born, long break #2 of 5 years to Wonderful, Wonderful, and now 3 years to Imploding the Mirage. Based on BB and WW, I'm inclined to say the shorter breaks work better for the band.
Crazy to think they could release something better than ITM in less than a calendar year!
I like everything up to and including Fire In Bone. After that, I get a bit tired of the album's sound. Need to give it some more listens though.
omg pls god
I plan on listening to it in the next day or so! Got my Sennheiser 6xx + JDS Labs amp ready 2 go baybee~
Haven't been into their more recent stuff at all, so this album caught me by surprise. It's got some good tunes. Gonna keep spinning it for a bit before landing on a final opinion, but right now I'd say it is definitely their best album in a while imo.
I'm doing a back-catalogue listen before getting to Imploding The Mirage, as I initially fell off after Day & Age, but the wave of positive feedback has me excited.
So many memories are tied up with Hot Fuss thanks to it releasing when I was in college (Age 16-18 for non-UK folk), that it's hard to ever give an impartial view of it. Unlike the rest of the world, Mr. Brightside didn't resonate with me as much. Its still a good song, but my favourites are Smile Like You Mean It, Andy You're A Star, & Midnight Show. It's a great pop rock album, maybe one of the best of modern times. I wonder if the band would have had the same longevity if they'd stuck solely to the same style and format, or ended up with completely diminishing returns.
Which leads us to Sam's Town. It's weird listening back now at how much we all thought this sounded like a totally different band, when back-to-back, there's actually a lot of similarity. Obviously the band goes from indie-disco to Americana in approach, and it took me a fair few listens to finally appreciate the album properly. Nowadays, I recognise it as just as good as the debut, and some days, I'm just more in the mood for it. I'd argue there's a lot more consistency to the songs as well, making it harder to pick favourites, but the title track, Enter/Exitlude, Bling, Uncle Jonny, & My List would be my at-gunpoint choices.
Will re-listen to Sawdust and Day & Age later on today.
So many memories are tied up with Hot Fuss thanks to it releasing when I was in college (Age 16-18 for non-UK folk), that it's hard to ever give an impartial view of it. Unlike the rest of the world, Mr. Brightside didn't resonate with me as much. Its still a good song, but my favourites are Smile Like You Mean It, Andy You're A Star, & Midnight Show. It's a great pop rock album, maybe one of the best of modern times. I wonder if the band would have had the same longevity if they'd stuck solely to the same style and format, or ended up with completely diminishing returns.
Which leads us to Sam's Town. It's weird listening back now at how much we all thought this sounded like a totally different band, when back-to-back, there's actually a lot of similarity. Obviously the band goes from indie-disco to Americana in approach, and it took me a fair few listens to finally appreciate the album properly. Nowadays, I recognise it as just as good as the debut, and some days, I'm just more in the mood for it. I'd argue there's a lot more consistency to the songs as well, making it harder to pick favourites, but the title track, Enter/Exitlude, Bling, Uncle Jonny, & My List would be my at-gunpoint choices.
Will re-listen to Sawdust and Day & Age later on today.
I swear, every day there's a different song that just got stuck in my brain. Today its Dying Breed.
Better get to it and report in!
Better get to it and report in!
Good little piece from NME
The Killers: “Music made it possible for me to dream”
The Killers are back with a career-high record that encompasses their devout belief in truth, honesty and always embracing emotion.
Look like Stoermer played bass AND guitar on the album:
Looks like Keuning is still a prima donna (that Vannucci ether!):
And sounds like another album is coming in 2021:
I remember seeing an interview around the Battleborn era with Brandon calling BS on bands that would say they written over 40 songs while recording the record, so I'm incline to believe they did record a lot of songs.
Imploding The Mirage got me excited for more Killers. Might pick up the vinyl on my next paycheck.
So, for me, the measuring stick of a good B-side/rarities collection is whether you could compile a worthwhile new album from what's on offer. I think Sawdust manages that, which is pretty impressive coming from just two album's worth of unused material. The obvious lead-in and highlight for most was the exclusive single Tranquilize, but other tracks such as Under The Gun, Move Away and Daddy's Eyes rank amongst the best the band had put out at this point.
Moving on to Day & Age...and it's just not a good album. The camp-factor goes up, but too much of it tries to still keep it straight-faced at the same time, and it just doesn't work. The album's highlights are when it's allowed to be more bombastic, and if they had just gone all-out on this approach, it could have been so much better. As it stands, there are four good songs and they are: Losing Touch, A Dustland Fairytale, Neon Tiger and Goodnight, Travel Well.
Moving on to mostly unexplored territory now outside of a few singles.
Moving on to Day & Age...and it's just not a good album. The camp-factor goes up, but too much of it tries to still keep it straight-faced at the same time, and it just doesn't work. The album's highlights are when it's allowed to be more bombastic, and if they had just gone all-out on this approach, it could have been so much better. As it stands, there are four good songs and they are: Losing Touch, A Dustland Fairytale, Neon Tiger and Goodnight, Travel Well.
Moving on to mostly unexplored territory now outside of a few singles.
My God is such a fucking banger. Could listen to that on repeat all day today.
I was reading a review somewhere and they tapped into something that I wasn't acutely aware of, but subconsciously I obviously latched onto (and probably a large reason I love this album so goddamn much), which is that both BB and WW were ballad heavy, whereas Imploding essentially eschews all that and goes full on bombastic (for the first time in years for The Killers), to great effect.
I was reading a review somewhere and they tapped into something that I wasn't acutely aware of, but subconsciously I obviously latched onto (and probably a large reason I love this album so goddamn much), which is that both BB and WW were ballad heavy, whereas Imploding essentially eschews all that and goes full on bombastic (for the first time in years for The Killers), to great effect.
I'm about halfway through the album currently and am reeeeaaaallly not feeling it despite the hype and (general) critical praise. It's so overproduced and shiny sounding at times that it reminds of me of other similarly synth-rocky arena jams of the 1980's.
I'll give it another listen later in the week and maybe my impression will change. I'm honestly kind of surprised at how hard I bounced off it considering the praise it's received. Usually I'm not the outlier with these sorts of things.
I'll give it another listen later in the week and maybe my impression will change. I'm honestly kind of surprised at how hard I bounced off it considering the praise it's received. Usually I'm not the outlier with these sorts of things.
Adore the album. When Dreams Run Dry is chefs kiss. Feels like the real ending to the album that outro gives me chills every time
A tier:
Caution
My Own Soul's Warning
Dying Breed
When the Dreams Run Dry
Blowback
Imploding the Mirage
Fire in Bone
B tier:
Running Towards a Place
My God
C tier:
Lightning Fields
Caution
My Own Soul's Warning
Dying Breed
When the Dreams Run Dry
Blowback
Imploding the Mirage
Fire in Bone
B tier:
Running Towards a Place
My God
C tier:
Lightning Fields
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I've been listening constantly since it was released and yeah I'm ready to say it's definitely in their top 3, maybe top 2, with Hot Fuss and Sam's Town. The composition, instrumentation, and lyrics feel like a culmination of everything they've done, the album is full of little bits reminiscent of every other album while still feeling cohesive and like its own thing. Even My God is growing on me lol.
I'm too lazy to think of how to rank their first 4 albums, but I like this one less than those but more than WW.
Yeah Sawdust is honestly maybe my second favorite album of theirs. Which is crazy but they just feel in such a good zone like holy fuck so many great jams. Their version of Romeo and Juliet I just adore. That's not to downgrade almost any of their albums. WW is the biggest downgrade but Day And Age I adored when that came out as well.
Their two singles off Direct Hits are bonafide great songs as well. Fucking love Shot at the Night and it's maybe in my top 10 (15?) of Killer songs.
The strings on My God slap. This band is so high quality wise and they have quite the catalogue now. Mr. Brightside will probably always be their most well known song but godamn these guys just make good songs consistently.
Every Album actually has fantastic closers. Battleborn, Imploding the Mirage, Goodnight Travel well. It just adds so much when these albums are cohesive like they are
I TRIED GOING AGAINST MY OWN SOUL'S WARNING
BUT IN THE END, SOMETHING JUST DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT
OH, I TRIED DIVING EVEN THOUGH THE SKY WAS STORMING
I JUST WANTED TO GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ARE
BUT IN THE END, SOMETHING JUST DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT
OH, I TRIED DIVING EVEN THOUGH THE SKY WAS STORMING
I JUST WANTED TO GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ARE
Battle Born. It's a bit...boring. Took all the wrong lessons from Day & Age in regards to the outgoing nature of the songwriting and dialled it all back way too far. There's a couple of okay tracks on here like the title track at the end, The Way It Was and The Rising Tide. However, I listened to this twice through and I can't say I have any inclination to ever put this on again when I have the other albums to hand. The two other tracks from this era that came out for the greatest hits album; Shot At The Night and Just Another Girl are pretty good though.
Wonderful Wonderful was a pleasant surprise however. It finally felt like the first fully-featured consistent album since Sam's Town. Not quite as good obviously, but it was one I could easily listen to from start to finish. Highlights were the opening title track, The Man, The Calling and bonus track Money On Straight.
Have only been able to listen to Imploding The Mirage once through so far, but positive so far.
Wonderful Wonderful was a pleasant surprise however. It finally felt like the first fully-featured consistent album since Sam's Town. Not quite as good obviously, but it was one I could easily listen to from start to finish. Highlights were the opening title track, The Man, The Calling and bonus track Money On Straight.
Have only been able to listen to Imploding The Mirage once through so far, but positive so far.
I think you mean "the first 5 and the last 5 songs are so fucking good omg", Ratsky! Whole album rocks start to finish, I've even come around on Fire In Bone.
I can't help but think the last 2 tracks should have a reverse order though, with the brilliant When The Dreams Run Dry closing it out.
The album title makes more sense now too when you consider:
- its a concept album about two people trying to reach a higher existence
- obviously those two people are not so subtlety Brandon and his wife
- They are both from Vegas, which is a traumatic place for his wife, so they recently left Vegas to escape her past and moved to Utah, imploding their old life
- then obviously the mirage can be their old life and a nod to the strip
When they open with that next year at their concerts its going to be fucking incredible.
I cannot wait.
Lightning Fields is...not great. :x
Same, I even moved it to the A tier
🤔 😲
I know!
It was at first but then I listened to it a few more times and I was like "eh"
LMAO. I had the exact opposite reaction. Didn't like it much at first, but daaaaaamn, I love it now. Same thing happened with Fire in Bone.
Overall, I have to admit, the entire album is far better than I ever expected it to be. It has even passed Gigaton(from Pearl Jam) as my personal album of the year.
I've listened to this album many times now - today I found myself repeating tracks one through to four continuously, they are just so good. I generally really dislike repeating songs / albums so this is quite exceptional.
I think Dying Breed is a phenomenal track - from the point where the drums kick in and Brandon is belting out "from the coveted touch of a girl in love", followed by that mini riff - it's glorious.
Similar moments:
- my own souls warning: the first "I just wanted to get back to where you aaaarreee" - a roof raiser, Brandon's vocals are fantastic here.
- Caution: basically the second chorus onwards, as the synth line really kicks in and- again - Brandon's vocal ramps things up.
Haven't loved a Killers record this much since Battle Born - they honestly feel, at times, like they straddle the line perfectly between a late 70s arena rock band at the top of their game, and a more current indie rock group.
I think Dying Breed is a phenomenal track - from the point where the drums kick in and Brandon is belting out "from the coveted touch of a girl in love", followed by that mini riff - it's glorious.
Similar moments:
- my own souls warning: the first "I just wanted to get back to where you aaaarreee" - a roof raiser, Brandon's vocals are fantastic here.
- Caution: basically the second chorus onwards, as the synth line really kicks in and- again - Brandon's vocal ramps things up.
Haven't loved a Killers record this much since Battle Born - they honestly feel, at times, like they straddle the line perfectly between a late 70s arena rock band at the top of their game, and a more current indie rock group.
I've not listened to the Killers in years. I'll never forget listening to Hot Fuss for the first time. I distinctly remember being 30 seconds into Jenny Was a Friend and thinking WHAT. IS. THIS!
They've continued to build a solid body of hits over the years but this the first album since Sam's Town that hasn't got my skip button working overtime.
I only wish they'd made more use of Lindsay Buckingham. It's a significant upgrade from Dave Keuning and I love to hear more of his guitar over an epic 80s sound.
I only wish they'd made more use of Lindsay Buckingham. It's a significant upgrade from Dave Keuning and I love to hear more of his guitar over an epic 80s sound.
Was wondering what he's been up to since he ditched The Killers
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This song is pretty darn good (the rest of the album is kind of forgettable tho unfortunately)
The official music video for Keuning´s "Restless Legs"
From the album Prismism, available January 25 2019, pre-order now: https://ffm.to/restlesslegs Director: Russell Sheaffer Animators: Hannah McSwiggen and Rus...
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This song is pretty darn good (the rest of the album is kind of forgettable tho unfortunately)