![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, the Varsity Tennis team celebrates winning districts. They played against Liberty Hill on Tuesday night and won with a final score of 10- 5. “We improved a lot even from the last game,” senior Blake Hillis said. “We lost against them the last time we played [Liberty Hill], but it was really close. It was just really important for us to win this match since it was the district finals. [When we won I felt] overwhelmingly happy, especially being there with my teammates and it being my senior year. It was just really great. It [felt] like a community.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tennis-Districts-e1728060882260.png)
From Rock to Pop, “The Killers” Release New 2017 Album
October 4, 2017
On their fifth full-length studio release, “The Killers” released album “Wonderful Wonderful” to mixed reviews from fans.
Since their 2004 rock debut album, “Hot Fuss,” which went triple platinum in the United States and produced fan favorites like “Somebody Told Me,” “All These Things I’ve Done” and “Mr. Brightside,” “The Killers” have mostly stuck to their rock roots in their three albums after their first.
Released on Sept. 22, 2017, “Wonderful Wonderful” is a ten-song album, produced by Jacknife Lee, and showcased single “The Man.” This album takes a more pop/disco style of music and mixes it with the bold bass riffs and electric guitar hooks the band is known for in their previous albums. Many fans like this new pop route the band is taking, but some wish “The Killers” would return to their mainly rock-styled music the fans are used to receiving from this band.
Starting off with a song matching the title of the album, “Wonderful Wonderful” is a very eerie and slow-paced pop song most notable for its catchy bass tune that’s played in the background for the whole duration of the song. Several other songs on this album repeat this style of slow-pop such as “Some Kind of Love,” “Rut” and “Have All the Songs Been Written?”.
The showcased single of this album, “The Man,” is a very disco-style song, which was very unexpected as this song was unlike anything “The Killers” had ever produced before in their 13-year career. Synthesised music and an electronic beat added with very repetitive, although catchy, lyrics combine to make a very good modern disco song.
Halfway through the album, “Run for Cover” starts off with a catchy guitar riff and proceeds to expand into the same style of rock songs “The Killers” have been known for in their previous works. The lyrics, sticking with the overall theme of “Wonderful Wonderful”, remain quirky and don’t seem to make much sense without explanation. This song seems to be the only rock-styled song on the whole album, but it’s good to see “The Killers” expand their music genres and play around a little bit with their sound and style.
Filled with a large amount of electric guitars and energizing drums as well as a good amount of electronic sounds and synthesised music, “Tyson vs. Douglas” is a perfect example of “The Killers” approach to blending the modern pop and rock genres together. This is probably one of my favorites on this album, reminding me slightly of the song “I Ran” by “A Flock of Seagulls” due to the mixed use of electronic sounds and electric guitars throughout. “The Calling” is also another song on “Wonderful Wonderful” that stays with the new pop/rock mix “The Killers” introduced in this album.
Overall this album is a very experimental and funky one from “The Killers”. Unlike their previous albums, this one leans heavily on a pop/disco feel and sound, but also brings back the classic “Killers” rock sound in a few of their songs. Because of the funky and quirky, but catchy, pop and disco sound and weird lyrics that don’t make much sense, I’m giving “The Killers” “Wonderful Wonderful” a six and a half out of ten stars. This is something I could listen to every now and then, and even then, only a select few tracks on the album, but not on a regular basis.
For any “Killers” fans I encourage you to listen to a few of the songs on this album on YouTube before you decide to purchase it.
