Sam’s Town (2006, Island) A + This album got brutal – absolutely brutal – reviews when it was first released, but it may be that the negative response to the album was simply a reaction to just how radically the group changed its sound since its debut. Technically, the only actual Top 40 hit here is the jealousy-infused dance-rock of the Top Ten hit “Mr. Best of all, these guys are amazing songwriters, and you couldn’t ask for a better set of songs to grace your debut album. Their sound would change quite a bit in later years, but here, they’re a hard-rocking, synth-pop outfit with a heavy debt to the likes of Joy Division/New Order, Duran Duran, and Depeche Mode.

Hot Fuss (2004, Island) A + Easily one of the greatest debut albums of the ‘00s, the Killers show no signs here of still being in their infancy, already sounding as tight, confident, and artistically focused as you could ever want a band to be. The Killers 'Hot Fuss,' one of the great rock debuts in recent memory, gets a vinyl reissue.

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