Brandon Flowers

Flamingo (island)

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When bandleaders go solo, the results are invariably similar, even when the leaders insist it’s different (Matthew Good, Dave Matthews, Gwen Stefani). But so what, when they’re packaged in a tacklebox full of hooks? Flowers treads familiar Killers ground here, to the point where the chorus for “Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts” is a reshash of “Mr. Brightside.” But he’s baroque and broken-hearted, country-tinged and synth- supported---it’s glorious and ear-wormy. Opener “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” is a declaration, an album thesis statement, finding our hero in a burned-out car and it doesn’t get better from there. But it sounds amazing.