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They Said:
All Music
"Every
time it tries to get real, it only winds up sounding fake,
which means it's the quintessential Vegas rock album from the quintessential
Vegas rock band.."
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Pitchfork Media
"Not fully realizing where their strengths and weaknesses lie
makes Sam's Town, despite the drastic makeover, roughly equivalent
to Hot Fuss, a mediocre album surrounding a few towering
singles."
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Slant Magzine
"Sam's Town is the kind of autofellatio that could destroy
a band's career. And while they probably aren't going anywhere (Panic!
At The Disco won't be taking their place anytime soon),
it's hard to disguise or ignore a slump the size of a landfill."
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Rolling Stone
"So this is the Killers in 1980s Springsteen-clone
mode: better than Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers;
not as good as John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band; about even
with Billy Hixx and the New Breed."
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SPIN Magazine
"Whatever the idiom and whomever they're borrowing from, the
Killers know only one kind of song. Everything is constructed
to epic dimensions, almost according to physical laws of acceleration
and propulsion. Sam's Town is basically Hot Fuss with bigger, spanglier
guitars and an all-round lack of restraint."
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