“Only the Young” by Brandon Flowers

Brandon Flowers stepped out from the Killers for Flamingo, his first solo album, in 2010, and "Only the Young" was the album's follow-up single and his second solo release, out on Island. Flowers wrote it and sings it, and Stuart Price covered most of the rest: he produced and mixed it, played bass, guitar and slide guitar, and shared the synthesizers with Flowers, the two of them arranging it with Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Robert Root recorded it, with Josh Baker assisting.

It's synth-pop with a wistful ache, and Entertainment Weekly called it a "bittersweet lament" and told readers to go download it. Sophie Muller, who had directed the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" video, shot this one in Flowers' hometown of Las Vegas, inside the Aqua Theater at the Wynn with performers from Le Rêve.

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