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Album Review: Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect

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"It’s all brassy motifs and rejoicing vocals"

Flowers comes out all guns blazing on his second foray in solo guise.

Dreams Come True really does echo the opening track’s moniker in lyric and in content – it’s all brassy motifs and rejoicing vocals – but it’s hard to predict how Flowers will break the moulds created by The Killers and his 2010 solo outing further along. There are tracks like Can’t Deny My Love, for instance, that risk being far too ironic with glossy vocals and ‘80s synths, while Still Want You and others mix gospel with Caribbean percussion for a bit of deviation.