Hot Fuss (LP)The Killers match postpunk guitars with a synthesizer overlay that recalls '80s New Wave without burying their sound in nostalgia. On their debut, Hot Fuss, front man Brandon Flowers plumbs his imagination for tales of murdered lovers ("Jenny Was a Friend of Mine," "Midnight Show"), voyeurism ("Mr. Brightside"), and sexual confusion (the single "Somebody Told Me"), Flowers and his mates are obviously canny students; the total effect is of a playacted

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Part of it was the skillful addition of outside elements

I managed to talk him into singing some harmonies too

One paired him with some throat singers from Tuva on a version of ‘Maralinga’

For a record written within limited surroundings

songs that were already well on their way to becoming Australian classics

and in Paris

Rihanna’s fifth album returns to her pop and Caribbean roots

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