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Tuesday, 11 September 2012

The Killers - Battle Born

Posted on 19:08 by Unknown
This band has been on a continuous slide since their debut launched them into the stratosphere. The disaster that was their sophomore album couldn't have been any worse if they actually tried. Then the band made a much improved album Day & Age which wasn't as good as the debut but it was much better than the abysmal Sam's Town.

Here is album number four from them and at first it was looking like another devastating disaster because the first three tracks are pretty tepid. But, that all changes come track four and "Here With Me" that is a good song not great but good. One of the albums standout tracks "A Matter Of Time" follows that is about as close to their debut sound that they have been since.

The album continues to be hit and miss making for a very uneven listen. I do really like "Miss Atomic Bomb" that gets a permanent place on my I-Pod. The trouble with this album is that when your listening to it outside of a couple of songs you just want to skip the track to the next one. It's almost like the songs are too long but time isn't the issue its that the songs are mostly meh. The bonus track "Carry Me Home" is one of the best songs to be had and should have been given a slot and removed the banal "Heart Of A Girl" which is bloody awful. The second bonus track again is better than some of the main album tracks. I wonder what else they left off the album because there might be much better music left behind which would be too bad.

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