The Killers
"Wonderful Wonderful"
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The Killers have been away nearly as long as LCD Soundsystem, but there's strangely little urgency surrounding "Wonderful Wonderful," their first album in five years. Brandon Flowers and Co. led the wave of synth-dependent bands who've dominated alt-rock for the last decade, but it's their sheer goofiness ("Life to Come" implores us to "dropkick the shame") and knack for dynamite singles, not their albums, that's ensured their place in the pantheon. "Wonderful Wonderful" is their most anonymous effort since 2008's "Day & Age," which is unfortunate, considering its two standouts: "The Man," an excessively silly Miami Vice-style theme song (the cash-register noise!), and "Run for Cover," which targets the Trumpocalypse more explicitly than anything on the LCD record, rhyming "progenitors" with "senators" and "apology" with "toxicology." Both are singles. _ Dan Weiss
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