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Day And Age | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Killers
Label: Mercury
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 45 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517851214
EAN: 0602517851214
ASIN: B001ENHJZQ
Release Date: November 24, 2008 (In 3 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Losing Touch | | • | Human | | • | Spaceman | | • | Joy Ride | | • | A Dustland Fairytale | | • | This Is Your Life | | • | I Can't Stay | | • | Neon Tiger | | • | The World We Live In | | • | Goodnight, Travel Well | | • | A Crippling Blow |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 MEDIOCRITY AT ITS FINEST. November 20, 2008
Colin Hogg (Belfast, N.Ireland)
Upon first listen you notice theres something not quite right; the guitars have gone and the Killers have gone from being a pop-rock band to being what they always threatened to become from their first outting; a synthesizer pop band pumping out bland, mediocre mainstream pop rubbish which no doubt will initially sell well based upon the strength of their first two albums but after you've listened to all of this for 3 times on the trot the only conclusion you can come to is that the Killers have lost the plot entirely on this one. The songs are weak and wishy washy, the power, melody and quirkinness of their former albums has been replaced by a dreary, monotonous, synth-pop weariness. Put simply; this is where they finally ran out of ideas, this is the hurdle they fell upon. Anyone giving this album any more than two stars obviously hasnt listened to Hot fuss and Sams Town which are both very fine albums. If you want rock'n'roll this Xmas do your self a favour and invest your hard earned cash in AC/DCs Black Ice. At least AC/DC rock and never ever disappoint. Day and Age is just a tedious, half-baked pop ramble from a band which should have known better than to serve this up to their adoring fanbase. A lowpoint which i hope the record buying public shall inform them about and which from i hope they can recover. The only reason i gave this album two stars is for effort. Sadly that effort has failed them. As for quality of material on this album; POOR.
 Episode 134: In which rock music is dealt another painful blow November 20, 2008
Bernard H. Christ (Leeds, UK)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think I can sum up my feelings for this album thus:
'Are we human or are we dancer?'
No wait, that doesn't mean anything at all. That's literally just some random words. Anyone? No, thought not.
As Adam & Joe said on their radio show the other day (after playing Human), we're returning to that 80s era of silly pompous stadium rock with really really really bad lyrics sung VERY seriously by very silly rock stars.
I'm trying hard to imagine anyone actually going into a shop and thinking they wanted to buy this. Don't you like your ears? Don't you and your ears get on very well? Or do you just not like music much? Was it toss up between this and the new Dido album? I mean, really, is this the album you've been waiting for?
N.B. Yes, I have heard it. Yes, all of it. My friend, for his sins, is a reviewer and had to sit through the whole album. I sat with him to make it more bearable. I don't think I succeeded.
Still, could be worse, it could be Razorlight. And that really is all I can say for it.
BRING ON THE ANGRY TEENAGERS WHO CAN'T SPELL!
An actual album review... November 20, 2008
Morris Day (Herts, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this last night, and have listened to it in full six times over the period since, I am probably disappointed.
I knew two songs already, the catchy fore-running single 'Human' - which for me was a grower, so I am hoping the album will be too and the fantastic 'Spaceman' which I'd say is the best this album has to offer.
More Sam Town's to Hot Fuss for me, certainly more American Springsteen than British New Order.
Losing Touch the opening track is for me a bit bland for an opener, certainly nothing on the previous openers with no real sense of forthcoming - maybe after a live outing this will change.
The aforementioned Human and Spaceman follow, my hope that the rest would follow this more upbeat and for me 'Killers' sound was short lived because Joy Ride the next track, whilst having a catchy background beat just did nothing for me - rattlesnakes and romance - when you chips are down - the Americanism's are for all to see, a quest for Stateside popularity to the same extent of here? Possibly.
The next track A Dustland Fairytale only compounds the point, this ballad is a pretty good track though and a certainly better than the next couple which are unfortunately fillers, just not up to normal Killers albums, again a bit waltzey and Latin American but just not top notch songs.
The next song Neon Tiger is more like it, back at their best and a potential future single.
The World We Live In takes the train off track again and they never find the way back, Goodbye, Travel Well particularly bad - so overall, more of the same, just not as good by half.
More ballads, more of an American feel (granted they are American but they became big on the Anglo-Influence) and less of the big, epic indie anthems - there is certainly no Mr Brightside or Somebody Told Me here. I can already here the silences at the O2 during the new tracks whilst everyone awaits the "Hits".
Still I've heard a lot worse records this year. 6.5 out of 10 just not the 9.5 of Hot Fuss or the 8.5 of Sam's Town. Almost 3 out of 5, but I gave them the benefit of 4 because of the hope of growing tracks!
Sam gets it on with Hot Fuss but comes too soon November 19, 2008
K. W. Yam (London)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Quirky lyrics are back; together with a different style of drumming and longer more integrated guitar sequences.
Similar to Oasis (Dig Out Your Soul) and Kaiser chiefs (Off With Their Heads) we get a booming start and then not much more, except for the occasional wonder like Neon Tiger and A Crippling Blow.
We've all heard the singles Human and Spaceman.
Well those tracks are typical `The Killers at their best' type songs.
But after the Latino favoured Joyride and the good but still slow grower 'A Dustland Fairytale'. The album really feels weak and unfinished/unpolished.
This is still one of the better albums of 2008 with the best tracks scoring 5/5 in quailty, but it is a shame The Killers allowed a chunk of the album to be filled with average songs like I Can't Stay, Goodnight, Travel Well and Forget About what I said (a bonus track).
In an attempt to really spread their wings The Killers don't get the mix or quality quite right. Keane managed to mix the Latino and emotional tunes better.
Losing Touch, Joyride and The World That We live in will no doubt become favourites after a few hours, but other tracks just seem bland fillers.
This album is best described as `somewhere between Hot Fuss and Sam's Town' in tone but quality wise it's simply `Sam's Town lite'
 Wonderful November 18, 2008
James
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A wonderful album from the Killers.
It sounds like a hybrid of Hot Fuss and Sam's Town, and is a huge step forward from their first two albums. It combines a sharp melodic focus with some commanding vocals from Brandon Flowers.
This is likely to push The Killers towards the global domination. One of the best albums of 2008. The Killers have managed to pull off the most difficult of all tricks - to be commercial and critically successful.
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