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As sure as night follows day, the members of successful rock bands make solo albums. And so it is with the Killers. Last year saw singer Brandon Flowers have a bash, and now drummer Ronnie Vannucci has followed suit, though he modestly cloaks his effort under a band identity. Modest, too, is the music, which is an amiable trundle through middle-of-the-road pop-rock, with the shadow of Tom Petty looming as heavily as it did over Noah and the Whale's Last Night on Earth earlier this year. Fine Time to Need Me essays country-inflected bar-room rock, White Dove plays at skinny-tied new wave, Girl at Sunrise is audibly indebted to the Replacements. There's nothing wrong with the melodies, but there's none of the imaginative use of instrumentation that made Noah and the Whale's effort a genre standout, nor the leaps into colour on the choruses that make hooks stick. Vannucci's listless voice does the songs few favours, either: he's nobody's idea of a commanding presence at the microphone.
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