![]() ![]() Their kindred spirits were misanthropes like Joy Division yet they had such a knack for radio-friendly choruses that their new wave songs, all of which were swathed in synths, always ended up sounding like chart-bound smashes. Four wide-eyed Las Vegas boys from good Mormon stock, the Killers had no interest in the decadence of their hometown, longing, instead, for life in the rain-soaked north of England in the miserable early Eighties. When the Killers emerged with Hot Fuss, in 2004, the box-fresh immediacy of the quartet's songs helped to disguise what a strange band they were. It seems such a simple thing, singer and indie posterboy Brandon Flowers trading in his eyeliner for an outlaw 'tache, but it says everything about his band's new incarnation. S ay what you like about the Killers, but you can't fault their attention to detail. ![]()
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