Yesterday was my birthday, and one of the gifts I got was Brandon Flowers' (The Killers lead singer) new solo album, Flamingo.
I had heard the single "Crossfire" before and it's grown on me, but I was a bit nervous that the rest of the album was going to sound kind of poppy and hooky like the single (which is, however, better than basically any other hooky-sounding pop song out there). Let's just say my fears were wiped away within a few minutes.
Brandon and his collaboraters put together a masterpiece. I'm quite surprised at how much flexibility Brandon shows on the album--for a while he sounds like regular old, long, open-voweled Brandon Flowers, but the further you get in, the more you hear him sounding like--something very different, something edgy, something country in some cases--my roomate likened one of the songs to Johnny Cash's voice. It really is quite remarkable to me how Flowers is capable of using his voice as something so compelling. We're so used to singers that are just singing a melody; Flowers' voice is like an electric guitar--technically, we've heard it many many times before, but the effects applied to the performance make it something different each time. I love the moaning he does in the background of "Crossfire."
I intend to talk more about this later, but for now it's time for bed.
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