THE KILLERS
REBEL DIAMONDS
EMI
★★★
Announced at relatively short notice in November, by their standards The Killers’ new Best Of is an oddly muted release. The reason seems simple: despite recent singles Your Side Of Town and Spirit being The Killers’ finest pop moments since The Man (borrowing heavily from New Order and Underworld respectively), Brandon Flowers has said that he’s abandoned what was meant to be their accompanying album, because he no longer feels convincing as a pop singer. Instead, Flowers wants to focus on mining the more introspective, personally meaningful side he felt flourished on previous LP, Pressure Machine.