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Crucially, Sam's Town sounds like a complete collection, with a far better strike rate than its predecessor.
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It is very good.
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MojoAn action-packed blockbuster. [Oct 2006, p.104]
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The album doesn't lend Flowers the gravitas he apparently yearns for, but it does prove that few are better at irrepressible pop hooks and fist-pumping choruses.
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"Sam's Town" is a sophisticated sonic metropolis.
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The Killers are still as flashy, unintentionally funny, and flagrantly affected as ever.
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But even if the music doesn't really work, it's hard not to listen to it in slack-jawed wonderment, since there's never been a record quite like it -- it's nothing but wrong-headed dreams, it's all pomp but no glamour, it's clichés sung as if they were myths.
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Q MagazineA much better record than its predecessor. [Oct 2006, p.112]
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Sam's Town works well as a cohesive album, despite its delusions of grandeur.
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An album considerably richer than "Hot Fuss" and far more worthy of mainstream hugeness.
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The highs aren't as high on "Sam's Town," but it's a better album overall.
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Taken as a body of work it is certainly more consistent than Hot Fuss.
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With those sharp synth lines, and an interesting sense of melody, the Killers have made a good album.
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Those who don't enter Sam's Town with inflated expectations will find it's a pretty fun place to spend some time.
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The Killers overextend themselves grabbing for the heartland's heartstrings.
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FilterFlowers would do better to leave the theatrics back at Caesar's Palace. [#22, p.96]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 269 out of 334
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Mixed: 35 out of 334
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Negative: 30 out of 334
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Sep 30, 2010
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PCNov 19, 2006
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Sep 21, 2021