The Killers Battle Born

Four years since The Killers collosal album Day & Age truly breathed new-life into American rock-culture, the four-piece Las Vegas band return with a brand new album 'Battle Born'. Following lead-singer, Brandon Flowers reasonable solo-success many fans feared Day & Age would be The Killers finale as a band, yet Flowers stayed true to his roots, and thankfully so is their new sound on first-single, "Runaways" is fresh and spirited. 

Flowers distincitve, wailing vocals are as usual key to making the track stand-out from a competitive-crowd, but  lyrically the song has an edge. With Flowers' powerful voice the song plays over a teenage encounter of his capturing that spirited energy feeling that anything is possible of an adolescent. It's bright, yet fiery and serves as the perfect uplifting introduction to their brand-new album. Starting slowly with keys and bass accompanied by Flowers singing, the tune builds to the energetic chorus. "Let's take a chance baby we can't lose, Mean we're all just Runaways." He reminisces this time and realises as they grew older, their spirits parted and their passion departed, commanding vocally for that feeling to come back.

The video is electric with the band playing in the sky, the scene transforms at various points in the song when Flowers sings of "Looking at the Stars", a city skyline appears clearly having some significance to their relationship. The song is enough to paint a substantial story and the video shows that.

A dynamic return to the scene from the classic American rock band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbyWSGYUgc