Flamingo meets Big Talk ...

One in advance: the two paths of solo singer Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vanucci have paid off and brought this band far far forward. Now is exactly the album came out, I've wanted for so long already by the Killers. I held the solo album of Brandon Flowers for a long time for the best Killers disc that you have ever done (it would not only have been the singer of course!). And when running at the entrance to this city in a nutshell "Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas", then you know what makes this band. But then came in the best 80s AOR style the Big Talk album of the drummer Ronnie Vanucci around the corner and blew me a summer completely gone! Suddenly blazed back on my childhood with cassettes and photographs of Cars, Rick Springfield or Bruce Springsteen. If the killer re-record an album, so I wanted the perfect mixture of precisely these two albums just mentioned. And here it is! It comes so bombastic but it is also retro-oriented, therefore, that it is the goose bumps up pushes me back. Brandon Flowers sings as good as long gone, Ronnie Vanucci drums, the soul from the body and guitarist Dave Keuning pushes a reef after another in the songs and runs a board as recently at "Sam's Town".
No question, the Killers have delivered their masterpiece. And just as the purist who is grieving the first albums afterwards must seriously question whether a band that does not want to play all their lives rehearsal room-synth indie rock, not just only grown and wiser and eventually halt poppy and sound bigger as with Muse want. The arrangements are great, the mix is ​​good craftsmanship, offering this album, though the Killers sound in itself always has certain limits of variability, a great variety and something I still have never been heard from the guys from Nevada. And one has to add that has to understand this band as a whole is once have been in Las Vegas and have broken the plastic city. "Battle Born" is definitely now one of my most played albums already 2012,!