This album, however, seems the diametric opposite of their usual approach. It is, more or less, a jazz fusion record, but one that is very much in your face. There are no smooth, drifting, ephemeral ...

Brandon Flowers, the main hotness behind orchestral-pop monster The Killers, is all set for the release of his solo CD “Flamingo” and today he released 30-second clips of all the tracks on the album.

The net result, though, is much the same: The Desired Effect sounds like Flowers' main band but with (a fraction) less punch. The blue-collar vignettes are, unsurprisingly, blown up into huge-sounding ...