In an interview with BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe Brandon Flowers announced that The Killers will ‘definitely’ release an album in 2012.
“It’s just whether it’s [released in] the summertime or the wintertime,” said Flowers.
The last album released by the band was 2008’s Day & Age that included the singles “Human”, “Spaceman”, “The World We Live In” and “A Dustland Fairytale”. Day & Age would go on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide.
Since the early 2010 hiatus of the band, Brandon Flowers released his solo album Flamingo. Flamingo debuted at #8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart thanks to its debut hit single “Crossfire”.
Flowers is definitely glad to be back in a four-piece group.
“It’s just exciting getting everyone in the room to make some noise,” Flowers told Lowe. “It’s quite a bit louder that with my solo thing, so I’ve got to get used to that.”
Although Flowers has stated that the new album will have a mix of styles from the group’s previous records, he admitted that they are not looking to “throw a curveball”.
“I think the consensus within the band is to take those things that we’ve done well and really hone in on that,” he said.
“We don’t want to make Hot Fuss 2 or Sam’s Town 2, or Day & Age 2. We’ll maybe take all that stuff, the best of all of it and do what we know how to do.”
A release date for the upcoming untitled album has not been announced but Flowers told Lowe that the first single off the album will probably be “Battle Born”.
“It’s definitely a killer on the record.”
