Natural Born Killers

The Killers have soared past puberty to the age of maturity.  I saw them at the start of this tour earlier this year and they have grown leaps and bounds since then.  They have discovered what makes bands transcendent and that is to render their songs orchestral in arrangement.  This ensures that what you hear on the album is not always what you hear in concert which is not always what you hear on the next tour.  The songs literally evolve.  Stuart Price provided much elasticity in his production such that Spaceman takes on a whole new dimension this tour.  The Killers are not a jam band but they can jam like they mean it.  Everything is in sync – the lighting, the stage, the multimedia curtain(s) and most importantly the band.  They have to be, coming off a series of festival gigs in the UK and Lollapalooza in the US.  Their set list rarely misses a beat and will only continue to get better.  And Somebody Told Me and Mr. Brightside are songs that I have heard hundreds of times and I have never tired of them.  Their tank is far from empty; they continue to evolve, because even natural born killers need to ply their trade.