Battle Born
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CRITIC REVIEWS
75
Instead of being blandly polished, The Killers come off sounding like an excited young band with something to prove.
70
If you’ve the stomach to set aside your indie sensibilities and endure the occasional terrifying flashback to ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’, ‘Battle Born’ holds some majestic moments.
70
Battle Born forges deeper into their distinctive traits and away from the compromises with radio or current trends
67
If you already don’t buy into The Killers, you’ll probably find Battle Born even more bloated, ridiculous, and over-the-top than anything else they’ve ever done.
50
Battle Born is music played in the past tense. Perfect, imperfect, pluperfect. Mostly imperfect.
40
After making it big off the back of a Murder Trilogy, The Killers seem at a loss as to where they’re heading next.
40
The tragedy of Battle Born is that even when it shouts at the top of its lungs, it never reaches that special place that the band accidentally trips into with their best material.
30
When you add it all up, Battle Born is a confused mess of an album, drenched in influences but positively overextended in its execution, the band trying way too hard to do something grander and more complex than what they’ve done before.
"Battle Born" features two of the best Killers songs, "Miss Atomic Bomb" & " Runaways". Unfortunately, the rest of the album repeats the same formula throughout its 51-minute runtime and it relies too much on 80's Heartland nostalgia. Even The Killers don't like this album... yeesh.
Fav Tracks: Miss Atomic Bomb, Runaways, Here With Me, The Way It Was, Battle Born
Least Fav Tracks: Be Still, Heart Of A Girl
Score:
5.8
Okay
Fav Tracks: Miss Atomic Bomb, Runaways, Here With Me, The Way It Was, Battle Born
Least Fav Tracks: Be Still, Heart Of A Girl
Score:
5.8
Okay
Battle Born is fun, danceful and radiates joyness. It's a perfect package to a summer trip if you just wanna have something to get your mind off the problems and sing the sticky tunes this record offers while you drive - doesn't mean you just have to listen this while you're in the road, it can be listen to at home if you're feeling alone or bored. A perfect gift from The Killers.
Let's start with the good, shall we? Brandon Flowers sounds as wonderful and emotive as ever, and tracks such as Miss Atomic Bomb, A Matter Of Time, and From Here On Out are just as brilliantly catchy and fun as anything else found in this band's brilliant discography. Okay... the rest of the album... is a frustrating string of songs that fizzle out, and have about as much character as being stuck in traffic on your local high street, as opposed to a scenic tour-de-force in a 1950's Cadillac in ... read more
This just isn’t as good as it could’ve been, they had everything to make this good, but still, they deliver 12 tracks and most of them just feel boring or repetitive, I still have to give it to them, Miss Atomic Bomb is incredible.
Favorite tracks: Miss Atomic Bomb, Runaways, The Way It Was
Least Faves: Heart Of A Girl, Be Still, Flesh And Bone
Favorite tracks: Miss Atomic Bomb, Runaways, The Way It Was
Least Faves: Heart Of A Girl, Be Still, Flesh And Bone
Boring pop rock that goes on for way to long and all sounds like the same generic and boring song. Sad that this is what has become of the band that made such classics as Hot Fuss and Sam's Town.
Best Track: Be Still
Worst Track: Deandlines And Commitments
Best Track: Be Still
Worst Track: Deandlines And Commitments
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Track List
- Flesh and Bone
- Runaways
- The Way It Was
- Here With Me
- A Matter of Time
- Deadlines and Commitments
- Miss Atomic Bomb
- The Rising Tide
- Heart of a Girl
- From Here On Out
- Be Still
- Battle Born
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Added on: July 26, 2012