Brandon Flowers

Brandon Flowers

Brandon Flowers has said he hopes to "change" with his second solo record.

Working with Ariel Rechtshaid on the LP, he's excited with the way in which the producer's pushing him to do new things.

Speaking to NME magazine Brandon explained: "Even though I'm still young, you can start to get set in your ways. Change is good and there's always growth, I'm always looking for that.

"It's nice to steer the ship and that's what you'd think I'd do on my own album, but I'm letting Ariel take over every now and then. That's led to some really exciting things and sounds I would never have used.

"As I've gotten older I'm much more open to that - I'm much more open to peoples' strengths and really trying to utilise them - and that's where Ariel comes into the picture. He's really knowledgeable about every genre; it's pretty incredible what he's able to reference and pull out. It's definitely going to be different, but I'm still in the thick of it, hammering away."

This year The Killers teamed up on their annual Christmas single with Jimmy Kimmel titled 'Joel The Lump Of Coal', but originally planned to record with Huey Lewis.

"We watched 'Back To The Future' in Soho in London one night. And of course [the soundtrack is] doused in Huey Lewis. It made me think how much we loved his voice growing up.

"Somehow, along the way, Huey lost his involvement. Jimmy had this idea of a lump of coal who goes to a bad kid and gives up his life and becomes a diamond. It's kind of genius that it hasn't been used."


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