Blog: Mixtape Maestro

Packaged at the tail-end of an album whose entire prior mood was based in upbeat pop thrills, Day & Age 's near-seven minute album-closer "Goodnight, Travel Well" felt too long, too broody and too dull in this context, a deflating punctuation to all the bright and shiny going-ons that preceded it. When taken in apart from it's trackmates though, the Killers ' song immediately stands tall as an extraordinary monument, powerfully communicating the internal anguish and feelings of powerlessness that arise when one is forced to deal with the uncompromising reality [...]