The Killers did good with Hot Fuss, their flashy debut of hooky Vegas new wave. Their look and glitzy synth tones were dialed directly into Indie ‘04, and after a few years of touring and fan base swelling, they talked big about the revolutionary nature of their sophomore effort. For all its strength, Hot Fuss wasn’t any sort of grand conceptual statement, and somewhere along the way the Killers began craving grand conceptual statements. The Americana rock of Sam’s Town wasn’t an abject failure — it spawned some of the band’s best radio singles in “Read My Mind” and “When You Were Young” — but as a whole, it felt clumsy and overproduced.
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