Hot Fuss
| The Killers
Hot Fuss
Hot Fuss is the debut album by the American rock band The Killers, released on June 7, 2004, in the United Kingdom and on June 15, 2004, in the United States. The album is mostly influenced by new wave music and post-punk. Hot Fuss produced several commercially and critically successful singles: "Mr. Brightside", "Somebody Told Me", "All These Things That I've Done" and "Smile Like You Mean It". -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Despite hit songs on both sides of the Atlantic and Best! Band! Ever! endorsements from UK scribes, Las Vegas-based The Killers' questionably titled debut album is radio-friendly style-over-substance.
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Modern Rock Review
The group’s debut album, Hot Fuss, is hands down their best. It plays a lot like a greatest hits record might but, of course, they hadn’t yet produced anything besides this yet.
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A.V. Club
With Hot Fuss, The Killers caused (and defined) a scene.
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NME
An album of two halves, one of which was brilliant...
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Slant Magazine
Brandon Flowers could start giving Simon Le Bon some tips on how to get down.
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Drowned in Sound
It's the kind of wonderful record that should be savoured minute by minute. Adore it while you can.
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Rolling Stone
This album is all Killers, no filler.
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Rolling Stone
Hot Fuss was the Killers at their sleazy best, singing about boyfriends who look like girlfriends, and dragging dance rock from the hipster fringes back to the down-and-dirty mainstream.
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BBC
The Killers are cool...'Somebody Told Me' is one of the singles of the year.
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Sputnik Music
This album is well worth a listen, and critcism of the singing seems somewhat unfair to me.
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Sputnik Music
(2008) This album comes as the best Killers album of them all.
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Vanyaland
It was a massive debut record.
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Mind Equals Blown
The Killers are another band I mark in my books that have had an incredibly solid debut album release.
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Pop Matters
The Killers can certainly be great when they want to, but in the end, despite a few moments of brilliance, Hot Fuss is all style, and very little else.
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Clash Music
A pop behemoth.
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Pure Grain Audio
Hot Fuss offered much more than catchy singles.
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VultureHound
Glamourous Indie Rock And Roll’ takes the form of an anthemic stadium-rock effort.
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All Music
Dance like no one is watching.
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Vice
Hot Fuss is not just a vaguely good album written by a once-good band. It's a tale of love, betrayal, coming out, being confused, and ultimately killing your ex-girlfriend but getting a happy ending anyway. All things that you can totally relate to.
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Albumism
Hot Fuss oozes with an earnest opulence from a band that nobody had ever heard of.
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The Interns
The perfect combination of alt. rock and stadium-ready tunes.
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Plugged In
Imagine an amalgam of ’80s bands repackaged for the new millennium. A little techno. A little punk. And enough artistry to earn The Killers a Grammy nom for Best Rock Album.
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Common Sense Media
Indie rockers throw some attitude our way.
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Gigwise
Best debut album ever.
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Spectrum Culture
Hot Fuss is one of the best debut albums of the 21st century.
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The Guardian
Hot Fuss isn't exactly a lovable record, more a culmination of recent pop-cultural forces peaking into an accessible shape. If there is to be an enduring Eighties revival, it could do worse than sound like this, although Franz Ferdinand remain the band to beat.
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The Communicator
The album has alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk revival and new wave genres that create huge variety between each song, but because of the unique lyrics written almost entirely by Brandon Flowers they were all distinctly the Killers.
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The West Review
Unfortunately, besides these enjoyable songs the album is nothing special, and . . . the album peters out and becomes lacklustre and dull.
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Teen Ink
Listening to this . . . sends chills through my spine and I'm certain it's done the same to others.
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Top Five Reviews
Hot Fuss is good. It's a solid offering that could have contended for a higher score were it for a better organization of the track listings. And the removal of one song.
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GoldenPlec
‘Hot Fuss’ is one of the ballsiest debut albums of the last decade. The Killers didn’t think they were a great band: they knew they were a great band.
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Anon Magazine
The Killers are amazing, and shame on you if you think otherwise.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
We all want a band to believe in, don't we? Well, apparently not as the success of The Killers ably demonstrates.
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