The Vegas rockers are back with a new album full of bombast, introspection and ironclad hooks.
With a new album in the can and nowhere to go, the Killers found themselves with a lot of unexpected free time on their hands. So they wrote another album.
“I was hitting the gym, I was doing my voice lessons, I was having suits made, I was getting ready for tour. And then everything just got shut down. And it was like, what do I do?” Flowers says. “So instead of going on tour, I went back to writing, and it was a pleasant surprise just because I had never done that before. I had already been working those muscles out, and songs just came a lot more naturally than usual.
Flowers estimates the band has 11 songs ready for a new album, which they worked on during two weeklong studio sessions in California and Las Vegas. “I really think it’s gonna be a fast turnaround,” he says. “I’m guessing shorter than a year.”, which marks the first Killers album written without co-founding guitarist Dave Keuning, who took a hiatus from the group in August of 2017 and hasn’t played with them since, despite technically still being an official member.
In Keuning’s absence, Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vanucci Jr. teamed up with producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado of indie-rock duo Foxygen, while Weyes Blood , the War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, K.D. Lang and ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham all lent their talents to the album. Buckingham’s searing guitar solo rockets “Caution” into the stratosphere, while Mering and Lang deliver breathtaking vocals on “My God” and “Lightning Fields,” respectively.
“I didn’t tell [Lang] this, but she’s representing my late mother,” Flowers says of her appearance on “Lightning Fields.” “I didn’t know if that would turn her off or not. That’s my mom talking to my dad.”
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