Album Review: The Killers Are Imploding The Mirage
Imploding The Mirage…. Sounds like what is happening to America. Yet, it is also the title of The Killers’ new album, out August 21. To explode is to burst outwardly, but to implode is to collapse inwardly. It is about crumbling from the inside all that the world saw of you to reveal what you really were. Thus, Imploding The Mirage feels like The Killers socio-commentary on a realization that many people are having right now: what we knew is gone, but what we know next feels too scary to see.
In a time where even death and devastation manage to have partisanship when discussed, The Killers use songs such as, “When The Dreams Run Dry”, “My Soul’s Warning,” and “Dying Breed” to approach grimness with glitziness. This group has always been able to approach heartbreak with a sense of champagne fantasies and golden-laced glasses. There is an inherent glam to their sound; using uptempo melodies to help lead singer Brandon Richard Flowers narrate how, in life, we keep going, even in sadness.
The Killers – My Own Soul’s Warning
Sometimes, I think the worst part of this pandemic, beyond its death and the amount of people, now, homeless and hungry, is that it ripped us of our ability to distract, which can be a good thing. Yet, it stopped us; it paused our ability to plan, hope for something better, and pushed us to stay present and calm even if in crisis, which is something we struggle to even if in celebration. Still, The Killers’ Imploding A Mirage brings back their signature sound and style at making sadness feel like a luxury; an expensive item that comes with the cost of life. Thus, it is hard not to feel emotionally immersed and seen as Flowers tells us the tale of another person let down in tracks like, “Blowback” and “My God.”
Brandon Flowers has an innate capacity to sing like he is telling you all the people he met on the way to you. He is “that friend” who always comes to see you with a story about how on their way to you “this happened” or they ran into “that person.” It is an exciting, inviting quality that amps up the record’s theme: disillusionment. You may not be able to get what you want in life, but, if you want to live, you learn how to get over that, which is what The Killers’ lyrics, ultimately, promote. For More Information The Killers Click Here.
