Killers singer not happy about album reviews

The Killers' new album, Sam's Town, isn't out until next Tuesday (October 3rd), but frontman Brandon Flowers is unhappy with some of the early responses to the disc. Flowers told us that a few of the reviews coming out in the press are not what he hoped to see: "No, not really (laughs). Actually, in England and in Europe, it's exactly what we wanted, it's been great. In America, they've been a lot more cynical about it. It's really discouraging, you know. I mean, we didn't get great reviews on the first album and we still sold five million records and so I understand that it doesn't have that big of an effect. But it's just discouraging. We really feel like we made a great album."

Sam's Town received two out of five stars from Rolling Stone this week, perhaps one of the sources of Flowers' angst.

The album follows up the band's multi-platinum 2004 debut, Hot Fuss.

The Las Vegas-based quartet kicks off its North American tour on October 6th in Los Angeles.

The Killers will perform this Saturday (September 30th) on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, to be followed by a three-night stand on Jimmy Kimmel Live on October 3rd, 4th and 5th.
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