The Killers will record a new album because their last one “wasn’t good enough”

Brandon Flowers has stated in an interview that the last album by The Killers, ‘Battle Born’ “wasn’t good enough” and “[they] all know it.”

Speaking ahead of the release of his upcoming solo album, ‘The Desired Effect’, Brandon Flowers said that he believes The Killers will record new material in the future, as long as they get a “kick in the pants” and recapture “a little bit of that drive and that hunger back.”

“Once we all get on the same page, it’ll work. I need to persuade them to like the same things as I do!” Flowers told NME. He added that guitarist Dave Keuning has recently “shown a new interest” in the group, and added that drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr shares the same ideals as the rest of the band.

“I don’t fear the end of The Killers – if it’s over, it’s over,” Ronnie Vannucci Jr. recently said. “We scratch those [creative] itches [with side projects]. I get a good feeling knowing Brandon is out there doing that too. I hope the other two [Keuning and bassist Mark Stoermer] do it. It gets weird sometimes when we start talking about our shit with the other two.”

Brandon Flowers will release ‘The Desired Effect’ on 18th May via Vertigo. Read DIY’s recent interview with Brandon Flowers, taken from the May issue of DIY Magazine, here and listen to ‘I Can Change’ below.