The Killers - Sawdust (180 Gram Vinyl) (2 Lp's)

The Killers - Sawdust (180 Gram Vinyl) (2 Lp's)The Killers emerged in 2004 with a more pop friendly version of the post punk revival sound of Franz Ferdinand, the Rapture, et al., and their combination of arena sized guitar pop, candy colored dance rock, and Robert Smithian vocals (de rigueur for their peer group) made them stars. Three albums down the line, they prove to be more than a flash in the pan on SAWDUST. Something of a grab bag, the album contains their cover of Joy Division's

post-millennial plaything

whether pounding out a churning syncopation on "The Hanging Garden" or delivering the heavy-hammered nail in the coffin on "A Short Term Effect

This is hardly a bad thing

" the 1978 LP Greatest Hits 1974-78 is the perfect distillation of Miller's prime -- because even in its single-disc incarnation

non-single-oriented material

De Lane Lea and Chappell Recording Studios

the sound veers away from the bubblegum nature of her early work or the genre-hopping aspects of other releases

Spring breakers

Cole's few departures from the narrative method are sometimes for the worse

Christine Ödlund and others

Ivan Kral-Keyboards/Guitar

Vampire Weekend tones down the quirks that may have polarized listeners before