The Killers – Sam's Town (Vinyl) Vampire Weekend 1997The album was recorded over

1997The album was recorded over a number of months through the summer of 1997 with a Bike line-up featuring Andrew Brough on guitar and keyboards

The album combines orchestral elements with electronic textures

there’s never been a better time to walk straight through the doors of the Yellow House and see what you might find

" Most notable about Monk's solo work is how much he retained the same extreme level of intuition throughout the nearly two decades that separate these recordings from his initial renderings in the late '40s

” The Guardian

The Killers – Sam's Town (Vinyl) Vampire Weekend 1997The album was recorded overWhen The Killers emerged with Hot Fuss, in 2004, the immediacy of the quartet's songs helped to disguise what a strange band they were. Four wide eyed Las Vegas boys from good Mormon stock, The Killers had no interest in the decadence of their hometown, longing, instead, for life in the rain soaked north of England in the miserable early Eighties. Their kindred spirits were misanthropes like Joy Division yet they had such a knack for radio friendly