There is a new song by the Killers called My God that is so overblown, it reminds you how both ridiculous and exhilarating big rock music can be. It is a mode that suits this band well. Their best-known songs, Mr Brightside and Human, occupy territory between the absurd and absolutely brilliant, and My God is no different. Towards its end, the cult American singer Weyes Blood coos a gorgeous bridge, before the whole thing climaxes in a tumult of choirs and drums, with the frontman, Brandon Flowers, chanting at peak preacher range. It is fabulous. Then you find out what the song is about.

A few years ago Tana, Flowers’s wife, was diagnosed with complex PTSD. The complex part means her childhood was