The fourth Killers record might be their wildest neon-Springsteen fever dream yet. "This natural selection picked me out to be a dark horse running in a fantasy league," Brandon Flowers sings over Eighties soundtrack-rock synth effluvia on "Flesh and Bone," nailing his signature mix of sincerity and Vegas Strip lounge lizardry. A-list producers like Daniel Lanois and Brendan O'Brien help the Killers go after the cheeseball chalice, especially on the doomed romantics' epic "Runaways" and "The Way It Was," which packs Meat Loaf into a red Corvette and drives him out to "the lonely Esmeralda County line," where "paradise is buried in the dust." So is all good taste and discernment, and that's the charm.

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“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”