With the Killers frontman’s second studio album The Desired Effect only two weeks away, we decided to take a look at his third offering from the album; ‘Lonely Town’. This single redressed the balance of the sugar coated ‘Still Want You’ whilst offering an alternative to the power pop of ‘Can’t Deny My Love’. The slightly faded production of Ariel Rechtshaid on all three tracks offers up a thin veil of continuity, but with ‘Lonely Town’ Flowers offers up a more rhythmic and pulsating track evocative of an early Eighties dance track in it’s beat with the sweeping synth drones hanging over it. His vocals act as the anchor to these instrumentals and are worked in harmony with the gospel-like backing singers; a combination that’s worked well many times before. Flowers even runs his voice through an old autotune device to hit the melodic peak more sweetly. If anything this song sounds like a marriage of Chvrches and Arcade Fire in it’s warped electronica and outright euphoria, but in reality, it’s another fine piece of pop from Brandon Flowers.
Owen Riddle @oriddleo1995
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