The Killers 'Sam's Town'

It seems you're damned if you do and damned if you don't when it comes to making that dreaded second album, so you've got to feel a little bit sorry for the Killers.
The Las Vegas quartet made such an impact with their synth-heavy Eighties-esque debut 'Hot Fuzz', but the follow-up 'Sam's Town' is remarkably different. Gone are the sexually ambiguous lyrics of bombastic pop rockers like 'Mr Brightside' and 'Somebody Told Me', replaced by a harder rockin' sound which has more in common with Bruce Springsteen, bizarrely. That's not to say that it's bad - the single 'When You Were Young' is brilliant, while other stand-outs include 'Uncle Johnny' and 'Bones'. However, it's such a dramatic left-turn from what fans are used to that it's bound to leave more than a few people scratching their heads and wondering what the hell they are listening to...