Killers, The - Sam's Town LP

The Killers pulled back from the synth-pop shine of 2004's Hot Fuss for Sam's Town, leaning into a bigger, Americana-tinged arena rock sound built around the city where they actually formed, Las Vegas, and put it out on Island Records. "When You Were Young" and the title track turned into the band's live-set warhorses and classic-rock-radio staples, the kind of songs that outlive the album they came from. This one is pressed on 180-gram red smoke vinyl, heavier wax for songs that were already built to fill a room.