I love the new sound. Sam's Town brought them a bit off course, but this album compensates brilliantly.
Losing Touch really hits the spot as it comes in, straight in with the first chord, instead of build up, which makes this song so powerful. Then comes the lead single Human, a fantastic pop-sounding song which, despite its nonsensical chorus, "Are we human? Or are we dancer?", still shows the Killers are fantastic.
Spaceman, however, is even better than Human. A story about alien abductions - again, another odd topic, but the music's good - but the powerful chorus really gets to you. Joy Ride is an odd one. It has a sort of Caribbean sound to it (it's not the only one, but the other one works better) and the saxophone sound is unexpected, but after a while, it does turn out to be quite good.
The slow A Dustland Fairytale brings us back to the Sam's Town era (particularly with the lyrics) but it still is a good song. This Is Your Life starts oddly, with some chanting sounds before the bass kicks in, and it just goes uphill from there. I Can't Stay is the other Caribbean sounding song, but it works a lot better.
Following that is Neon Tiger, which should be the third single. It is pure Killers awesomeness. The World We Live In is a real Pet Shop Boys influenced song, and it shows that on this album, you have no idea what the Killers will come up with next. Especially when you consider the closing track. Goodnight, Travel Well is a seven minute song that starts off slow and boring and gets going towards the end, which saves it from being a bad song.
SCORE: 9/10
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