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deemoyzaIt's been a while since I've posted here. I haven't been creating much of my own to share, but I thought I'd pop in and share some nice music.
To be honest, I'd pretty much written off The Killers after Wonderful Wonderful. But Imploding the Mirage was a delightful return to form, and their latest, Pressure Machine, is a dramatic departure, but fairly impressive, overall. There's still the signature lyrical quirks (even some of the rhymes in the song above are labored), but the stripped-back sound and darker tone are an interesting turn. The little snippets of interviews in between songs complement the atmosphere really well, to the point where the album feels like a mini-documentary of small-town life (I could've done without the story about the horse, though; that's one of the reasons I chose to share the live version of this song, which, thankfully, doesn't include it).
As intriguing as this album is, personally, it nails the small-town feeling a little too well to be a comfortable experience for me. The place I grew up in was not exactly small, but it suffered from some of the more problematic elements of small-town life. You couldn't get anywhere if you didn't know the right people or speak the right dialect, jobs were scarce, drug use and gang activity were all too common. Hearing the stories on this album evokes some pretty clear memories of my own hometown, and listened to all the way through, it begins to feel a bit claustrophobic.
But that's just me.
Anyway, "Runaway Horses" quickly became my favorite track on the album, and I thought I'd share it here. :)
To be honest, I'd pretty much written off The Killers after Wonderful Wonderful. But Imploding the Mirage was a delightful return to form, and their latest, Pressure Machine, is a dramatic departure, but fairly impressive, overall. There's still the signature lyrical quirks (even some of the rhymes in the song above are labored), but the stripped-back sound and darker tone are an interesting turn. The little snippets of interviews in between songs complement the atmosphere really well, to the point where the album feels like a mini-documentary of small-town life (I could've done without the story about the horse, though; that's one of the reasons I chose to share the live version of this song, which, thankfully, doesn't include it).
As intriguing as this album is, personally, it nails the small-town feeling a little too well to be a comfortable experience for me. The place I grew up in was not exactly small, but it suffered from some of the more problematic elements of small-town life. You couldn't get anywhere if you didn't know the right people or speak the right dialect, jobs were scarce, drug use and gang activity were all too common. Hearing the stories on this album evokes some pretty clear memories of my own hometown, and listened to all the way through, it begins to feel a bit claustrophobic.
But that's just me.
Anyway, "Runaway Horses" quickly became my favorite track on the album, and I thought I'd share it here. :)
