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Oct 2, 2017Wonderful Wonderful is the Killers’ strongest statement since 2005, a more than okay affirmation of their power to keep a global audience.
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Sep 25, 2017The knock on them has always been that their albums surround great singles with skip-able filler, but this time out they’ve put together a relatively tight, cohesive record. It’s not without its flaws, but Wonderful Wonderful still might be the best Killers album yet.
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Sep 22, 2017An album without an obvious theme or concept it may be, but somehow, it’s still quintessentially The Killers. It may not be the all-out stadium epic we’ve come to expect from the band but it’s still wonderful (wonderful).
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Sep 21, 2017This is certainly big music, which is all the better for its more intimate, touching soul.
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Sep 21, 2017[Flowers] bares more on Wonderful Wonderful than ever before, and the result is the band’s best album since 2006’s ‘Sam’s Town’.
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Sep 21, 2017The record charms because its ridiculousness is sincere and his sincerity is ridiculous--two qualities that make him and his art messy and quite genuine.
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Sep 21, 2017Wonderful Wonderful is not an about-turn, not an exercise in New Earnestness, but the latest step in becoming the most concise version of themselves--it is true because it concentrates the traces of what they have always been.
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Q MagazineSep 19, 2017Wonderful Wonderful is a glossy indie-pop album with sonics as slick and glistening as a brand-new Vegas skyscraper. [Oct 2017, p.110]
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Sep 22, 2017Although the new album doesn’t live up to its effusive title by recapturing the glory of Sam’s Town--there’s no “When You Were Young” here--it affirms that the Killers are far from dead yet.
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Sep 19, 2017Wonderful Wonderful is likely the most self-conscious Killers album ever.
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Sep 22, 2017The beauty of The Killers is that you can start at any point. Each album is as good as the last and those that came after it. To that end, Wonderful Wonderful works as a perfect introduction or a delightful continuation.
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Oct 9, 2017While Wonderful Wonderful certainly isn’t The Killers’ best record--or even their second best--it is a welcome return to form after some time in the wilderness.
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Sep 22, 2017What's great about Wonderful Wonderful, though, is that they seem in on the joke, doubling down on their hugeness fetish while wink-winking their way to the bank.
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Sep 22, 2017Despite its flaws, Wonderful Wonderful is a welcome course correction, a relatively personal record from a too-often facile group.
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Sep 20, 2017Wonderful Wonderful finds them more comfortable in their own skin: They've managed to condense their operatic impulses into an album of tight, relatively low-key pop songs.
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Sep 22, 2017No tens here—sixes and sevens abound, for sure, a few fives, maybe an eight. Even mired among the sixes, though, you can feel the palpable yearning.
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Sep 25, 2017Wonderful Wonderful is the sound of a band rediscovering why they’re even making music in the first place, embracing their eccentricities instead of merely playing into what’s expected of them. It will never be anyone’s favorite Killers album, but it’s the most fun we’ve had with them in years, and a hopeful sign of truly wonderful things yet to come.
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Sep 25, 2017The most striking song (discounting the Personal Jesus reenactment The Calling) draws on Flowers’ own childhood experience: the surging, synth-laced Tyson vs Douglas, inspired by his shock when the champ hit the mat, could touch gloves with the band’s best.
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Sep 21, 2017Wonderful Wonderful is an album that doesn’t let the listener look forward to the next track, because the album is restlessly glancing backwards over its shoulder, haunted by past successes of The Killers, and the great artists who came before them.
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Sep 20, 2017In all, it’s an album with an admirable sense of ambition and innovation, a band pushing themselves sonically and lyrically in new directions; that they at times come up short is therefore a shame.
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Sep 25, 2017On Wonderful Wonderful, there are glimpses of that ambition on an otherwise routine album from a top-notch band on autopilot. But if the Killers want to capture the moment like they did a decade ago, they’ll have to want it more.
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Sep 20, 2017That lack of any real direction or purpose colors all of Wonderful Wonderful, a record that, even by The Killers’ standards, boasts little depth beneath its glossy surface.
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Sep 25, 2017Aside from a few big hitters, Wonderful Wonderful has too many middle-of-the-road moments. ‘Life Itself’, ‘The Rut’, and ‘Have All The Songs Been Written’ are barely distinguishable, and instantly forgettable.
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Sep 25, 2017The band is out of gas and has been for a while now. Wonderful Wonderful fills the same role as Battle Born, taking mid-tempo pop-rock with aimless verses and marrying them to one stab-at-the-radio chorus after another.
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Sep 27, 2017Despite a committed effort, Wonderful Wonderful isn't a title that accurately reflects its content.
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Positive: 121 out of 138
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Mixed: 12 out of 138
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Negative: 5 out of 138
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