The Killers Present Their Third Album: Day & Age

The Killers present their third studio album, Day & Age and front man Brandon Flowers bragged to Rolling Stones Magazine it's the Killers best album yet and each track will "blow your mind". The album goes back to the sounds present in Sam's Town, which dropped in 2006, but it adds a vibrant new, almost space age sound, which is probably why Flowers described it as "like looking at Sam's Town from Mars".

Produced by Stuart Price, who is most notable for his work with Madonna, the record is stripped down more than the two previous albums. It does not surprise me that they tried to mix it up a little and they did it well. They experiment with faster tempos and electronic rhythms, becoming a little more abstract, especially with their super cool looking album cover, and still maintain to stay in their niche as an easy on the ears lyrically profound indie alternative band.

Human the lead single released in September poses the question, "are we human or are we dancer?" Human has the lyrical content you'd expect from The Killers, but it's a familiar voice put over an instrumental a little faster than usual, but still not fast enough to dance to (guess we're not dancers). Brandon Flowers explains the single as "Johnny Cash meets Pet Shop Boys", bringing back a sound similar to the bands first hit Mr. Brightside.

The third track, Spaceman, has a similar sound, taking you to some new age outer space place to hang out with a Spaceman. Despite the fast pace, Spaceman has the underlying tones of a love song, "I'm fine without you...it ain't so bad". With the same playful synthesizer sounds of Human, Spaceman has also gained some popularity and even appeared on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track 8 of 10, Neon Tiger is sure to please any fan of The Killers, besides the extra thump of the bass guitar it has their typical sound. Flowers claimed the lyrics were an attempt to try to "write like MGMT", but if he wouldn't have told on himself I wouldn't have known. Neon Tiger reminds me a lot of The River Is Wild and I think of all the ten tracks I like this one the most.

Joyride is where it gets funky with horns and the beat and tempo of some 1970s disco hit. With this track playing at a stoplight, you'd probably start to dance a little. Joy Ride is a short song, not even four minutes, but it's a nice change of pace.

The World We Live In is a song that everyone can relate to, talking about what else but the world we live in and it has this lively intense 80s pop mixed with contemporary jazz sound to it. This is a song that will get stuck in your head.

The last track, Goodnight, Travel Well, is an almost seven minute outro track that takes its time starting, building up suspense like it's featured on some thriller movie. The song is good, I mean it is The Killers work, but it's so long, goodness. You may listen to it or you might just hit skip to go back to track one and experience this new incredibly vivacious Killers album one more time.