“I just saw an interview with someone saying that they don’t want to be in a big band because they can’t fake it,” The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers tells NME via Facetime in the early days of lockdown back in March. “It made me think about myself because I’m in a big band and I don’t feel like I’m faking it.
I think that’s maybe what separates us.”The Killers have always walked the tightrope between earnest honesty and flamboyant showmanship.
With 2003’s bright-eyed debut ‘Hot Fuss’, they traded in glamorous indie rock’n’roll, but carried it with a certain sense of innocence.
That remained even when they turned the bravado up on world-beating follow-up ‘Sam’s Town’. Their sixth album ‘Imploding The Mirage’, out today, is a career-high.
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