Brandon Flowers On The Killers’ New Album ‘Wonderful Wonderf

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Riding in at the very top of a wave of indie rock revivalists, The Killers broke out in 2003 with seemingly immediate success. Carried forward by a string of instantly catchy singles ‘Mr Brightside’, ‘Somebody Told Me’, ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ and ‘Smile Like You Mean It’, the hard-working Las Vegans’ debut Hot Fuss scaled heights that contemporaries The White Stripes, The Strokes or Interpol could only envy. After plunging a sense of glitz, grandeur and a hint of decadence back into the heart of popular music they proved their mettle again with equally formidable follow-up Sam’s Town.

Skip ahead a little. Nearly a decade and a half later many of their contemporaries have faded from view, but heck, The Killers are still here. Closing the five-year gap since 2012’s Battle Born they’ll soon be dropping 5th album Wonderful Wonderful. The album sees the group returning bigger and ambitiously weirder than ever before. It spills outward as a glamorously sprawling vision of rock, pop and dance music.

Frontman Brandon Flowers leaves the impression of an individual that’s more of a record junkie than an international superstar. Calling through from New York, he speaks brightly and with little apprehension. This comes as a slight surprise given that things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing since The Killers made public that guitarist Dave Keuning and bassist Mark Stoermer wouldn’t be accompanying the group on its upcoming tours. Flowers addresses the matter with casual ease. Some negative outcry from the group’s fanbase was inevitable. He rejoinders with the proposition that all four members have reached an unconventional but necessary comprise.



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