Flamingo - Brandon Flowers
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

  • Summary: Known as the frontman for Las Vegas-based rock group, The Killers, Brandon Flowers ventures out on his own with a solo debut that sounds achingly similar to the melodic, Vegas-themed music of his band but with a more self-conscious approach.
  • Record Label: Island
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 25
  2. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. While Flowers is a bit more reserved in his solo outing, Flamingo still retains a bit the thematic charm of a typical Killers album.
  2. Flamingo finds Brandon Flowers exploring big topics (love, religion, the complicated charm of his Las Vegas hometown) over even bigger arrangements.
  3. Like the three Killers albums, Flamingo is patchy, the sound of a vivid talent not living up to its initial promise.
  4. Brandon Flowers has gone on record saying he brought the songs on Flamingo to his fellow bandmates for the next Killers album and was given the brush-off.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Brilliant album! All the songs are good. Where as most albums have a couple of songs that you just simply skip over this album doesn't. My favourite album at the moment and one of my favourite of all all time. Expand
  2. The LP is varied and in an other, but also cool style than The Killers. Brandon Flowers experimentalizing with his first solo album and made a good one! Don't look at the critics - look at the user scores! It only has 3 really good songs, but the album itself is the great thing! It has two weak songs but it's just a interesting adventure to hear. Hopefully there'll be another solo album by Mr. Flowers or an album by The Killers which is as good as this. Could've been better but is great, anyways. Collapse
  3. Pat
    7
    Not terrible. It's a bit like a B-sides album for the Killer's Day and Age. Killers A-side albums are fairly different sounding from each other. 'Playing with Fire' is a good high point of the Flamingo. Expand
  4. If you're looking to listen to an exuberant, mind-filled artists with ace songs, look no further than The Killers. But really, don't look further than that, because their frontman Brandon Flowers made a flop of a decent record with "Flamingo". Really, "Crossfire" was the only track that had garnered any of my interest. Well, maybe also the exception with "Only the Young". But the rest of the record sounds like an obvious revision of Sam's Town into some sort of "looking back to my childhood" feel, rather than the latter's "Young boys wanting to grow up to be men" feel. Ultimately, my point is that this album had hype to it, but failed to live up to it. But, Flowers did appear to make an effort on the record, but recycling idea is not the best way to do so, thus I give the record a "2 out of 5 stars" a.k.a. a 4. Expand

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