The devil’s water it ain’t so sweet and Brandon Flowers must not be dipping those feet of his in it any longer. He’s not writing so much with a sinister tint, but instead with an eye toward broken dreams and escaping towns/lives without futures—to make something of himself. While The Killers’ soulful, dancey 2004 debut “Hot Fuss” spotlighted murder as a viable expression of love and big, shaking keyboards that sounded like chandeliers discussing the weather, the Las Vegas group’s newest—“Sam’s Town,”is not as drastically different as the world at large is trying to get you to believe. Flowers, Dave Keuning, Ronnie Vannucci Jr., and Mark Stoermer are still masters of grand, sweeping statements and robust choruses bigger than Lake Mead and thicker than the Hoover Dam. Don’t buy that this record sounds like Bruce Springsteen. It doesn’t, but because it’s coming out Tuesday and we have (5) copies of a limited 12” vinyl album that features four different remixes of the lead-off single “When You Were Young”—two by Jacques Le Cont and two by The Lindbergh Palace—we’re bringing back the essay question for one week only. Write us at sean@daytrotter.com and tell us—in 400 words or less—the most creative bet you’ve ever won or lost. The best five answers received by 5 p.m. Oct. 8 will win some black record and a poster.