Wonderful Wonderful (The Killers song)

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"Wonderful Wonderful"
Promotional single by The Killers
from the album Wonderful Wonderful
ReleasedAugust 24, 2017
Genre
Length5:10
Label Island
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Jacknife Lee

"Wonderful Wonderful" is a song by American rock band The Killers for their fifth studio album Wonderful Wonderful (2017). It was released on August 24, 2017 as the first promotional single from the album. [1] Nearly a year later on August 23, 2018, the band released a music video for the title track.

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Background and release

According to the band's vocalist Brandon Flowers, the idea for the title of the song and album came when he was in the desert and saw a storm coming his way: "I thought 'wonderful, wonderful' and I was able to use it in a song that I wrote with Mark, our bass player, and it ended being an important part of the record." [2] He also mentioned that "Wonderful Wonderful" has "some of the coolest production on the record." Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. revealed that no idea was too weird or out-of-the-box in Jacknife Lee's studio: "It looked like a kid's playroom with Legos everywhere, except instead of Legos, it was pedals and wires and a lot of experimentation." [3] Flowers also explained that the song finds the band going to "darker territories" than they've ever been into before: "I hear things in it that remind me of things that I grew up loving. Also, that I haven't been able to touch upon and that was helpful. I started it with Mark, our bass player, and he's more a minor key type of a guy and he brought that out of me."

The song premiered on August 24, 2017 on Beats 1 as Zane Lowe's World Record. [4] It was then released on digital retailers and streaming services as the album's first promotional single. [5] [6]

Composition

"Wonderful Wonderful" is a post-punk and gothic rock song with a decidedly minor-key composition, filled with mournful horn lines and glitchy electronic accents. It was composed by Brandon Flowers, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vanucci Jr. and Jacknife Lee, who was also responsible for producing the song. [7] [8] [9]

Critical reception

The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Kory Grow from Rolling Stone called the track a "dusky mood piece that recalls later Depeche Mode and maybe a little Talk Talk". [10] Mark Savage of BBC News said the song is "built around a wonderfully menacing bassline with Flowers in full ranting preacher mode". [11] Musically, Stereogum's Pranav Trewn opined the song is a "fascinating swirl of influences that expands The Killers' palette for once not by reaching up for bigger choruses and grander gestures, nor by dressing old Springsteen affectations in a glam moonlight, but rather through pushing outward the range of sounds in their arsenal." [12]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [9]

Recording locations

Personnel

The Killers

Additional personnel

  • Matt Bishop – recording engineering
  • Martin Cooke – mixing assistance
  • Rich Costey – mixing
  • Nicolas Fournier – mixing assistance
  • Malcolm Harrison – assistant recording engineering
  • Jacknife Lee – guitar, keyboards, production, programming, recording engineering
  • Robert Root – recording engineering

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United Kingdom August 24, 2017 Digital download, streaming Island [5] [6]

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  2. ↑ "Brandon Flowers: 'I regret the negativity and arrogance of when The Killers started out'". NME. July 11, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Inside the Killers' New Album: 'It's the Closest Thing We've Done to Sam's Town'". EW.com. June 22, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
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