{"id":60506,"date":"2012-09-17T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=60506"},"modified":"2012-09-18T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:35:14","slug":"skivrecension-the-killers-battle-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=60506","title":{"rendered":"Skivrecension: The Killers &#8211; Battle Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-killers-battle-born_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-60507\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-killers-battle-born_h-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: The Killers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Skiva: Battle Born<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release: 19 September 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Betyg: 4\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Efter fyra \u00e5rs v\u00e4ntan har The Killers nya skiva \u00e4ntligen tagit form. Indierockbandet fr\u00e5n Las Vegas \u00e4r tillbaka, mer erfarna, men samtidigt mer deprimerade \u00e4n n\u00e5gonsin.\u00a0Att Brandon Flowers (men \u00e4ven Ronnie Vannucci)\u00a0parallellt\u00a0arbetat med sitt soloprojekt \u00e4r n\u00e5got som avsl\u00f6jas direkt i skivans m\u00f6rkare toner som den delar med &#8221;Flamingo&#8221; snarare \u00e4n tidigare verk fr\u00e5n The Killers repertoar.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e5tarna behandlar lite besv\u00e4rligare \u00e4mnen som gamla k\u00e4rlekar, saknad och sorg medan skivans genomg\u00e5ende tema \u00e4r en konservativ reflektion \u00f6ver hur det mesta var b\u00e4ttre f\u00f6rr. Men trots den melankoliska, pessimistiska k\u00e4nslan som \u00f6versveper &#8221;Battle Born&#8221; \u00e4r The Killers poprock lika radiov\u00e4nlig som alltid, samtidigt som varje l\u00e5t kan st\u00e5 f\u00f6r sig sj\u00e4lv och \u00e4r potentiellt singelmaterial.<\/p>\n<p>Samtidigt som l\u00e5tarna \u00e4r unika och g\u00e4rna s\u00e4tter sig p\u00e5 hj\u00e4rnan kan dock tyv\u00e4rr texterna l\u00e4mna lite att \u00f6nska. Om vi verkligen m\u00e5ste hitta n\u00e5got att klaga p\u00e5 i The Killers kanske starkaste sl\u00e4pp hittills s\u00e5 borde det vara att \u00f6verfl\u00f6det av klich\u00e9er som stundtals \u00f6vermannar skivan g\u00f6r att k\u00e4nslorna som f\u00f6rmedlas ibland kan k\u00e4nnas aningen ytliga.<\/p>\n<p>Skivan \u00e4r v\u00e4ldigt l\u00e4tt att sm\u00e4lta och v\u00e4xer f\u00f6r varje lyssning. \u00c4ven tredje och fj\u00e4rde g\u00e5ngen g\u00e5r smidigt utan att det k\u00e4nns ett dugg anstr\u00e4ngt och l\u00e5tarna flyter ihop perfekt varese de spelas i ordning eller shufflas. Fj\u00e4rde studioalbumet &#8221;Battle Born&#8221; \u00e4r definitivt bandets b\u00e4sta sedan &#8221;Hot Fuss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMbyWSGYUgc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Killers Skiva: Battle Born Release: 19 September 2012 Betyg: 4\u00a0 Efter fyra \u00e5rs v\u00e4ntan har The Killers nya skiva \u00e4ntligen tagit form. Indierockbandet fr\u00e5n Las Vegas \u00e4r tillbaka, mer erfarna, men samtidigt mer deprimerade \u00e4n n\u00e5gonsin.\u00a0Att Brandon Flowers (men \u00e4ven Ronnie Vannucci)\u00a0parallellt\u00a0arbetat med sitt soloprojekt \u00e4r n\u00e5got som avsl\u00f6jas direkt i skivans m\u00f6rkare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,22],"tags":[8695,827,5765],"class_list":["post-60506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-musik","category-recension","category-skivor","tag-battle-born","tag-brandon-flowers","tag-the-killers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60549,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60506\/revisions\/60549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}