For fans of Las Vegas's best rock n' roll band, The Killers, their new album will be titled "Day and Age," and will be released in November. Following their album of B-sides and obscure tunes, "Sawdust," and their last album "Sam's Town," the group is recording the album now and has played some of the tunes in concert recently. One of these songs, "Spaceman," lead singer Brandon Flowers said they have been playing between "Read My Mind" and "Mr. Brightside" on their setlists to the fans approval; so that can give you a general idea of how the song will sound when split between those two singles.Flowers spoke briefly about this at the Leeds Music Festival in England this past weekend where the band was a headliner along with Metallica who also have a new Rick Rubin produced album, "Death Magnetic" coming out next month. He went on to divulge several track names on the new album being: "Goodnight Travel Well," "Joyride," "Neon Tiger," "I Can't Stay," and "Losing Touch." He then said "Losing Touch" was a favorite of his.
I can't wait to hear what the group has to offer on their third disc. If it is a combination of everything they've done so far, it should be brilliant. My first experience listening to the group was hearing their album "Sam's Town," which many critics and die hard Killers fans put down when it was released. Many said it was not up to par with their first album, "Hot Fuss," but I thought "Sam's Town" was great (a concept album on the same, non-connected way as "Sgt. Peppers"). I think my blind listening to it formed a more honest opinion that differed from fans and critics that expected similar sounds heard on their debut (another great album).
Flowers openly touted the "Sam's Town" album as one of the greatest records ever made when it was released, which I'm sure didn't help as well, and eventually caused them to give something back to the fans with the "Sawdust," disc. Years from now though, I believe "Sam's Town" will stand the test of time, and be hailed as a great CD, much like my similar belief to The Strokes second album, "Room On Fire," which received similar initial backlash.
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