The Killers, 'Sam's Town' (Island)

Rock's Yankee-Doodle dandies stage a widescreen epic.

The most successful British new-wave band ever to emerge from the Mojave Desert, the Killers are also a quintessential Vegas act -- a gaudy triumph of pastiche and artifice. The quartet's 2004 debut, Hot Fuss, which sold five million copies worldwide, was a slick, brash replica, complete with mild foppery and accents redolent of Anglo imports on early MTV.

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