The Killers’ new album is coming in August and will probably be “very totally different”

The Killers’ “very totally different” subsequent album is ready for launch in August, drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. has revealed.

The arrival of the band’s follow-up to August 2020’s ‘Imploding the Mirage’ has already been teased this yr, with frontman Brandon Flowers confirming again in April that that they had completed recording.

Talking in a brand new interview for the podcast Sarah Hagan Backstage, Vannucci has now revealed that The Killers are aiming to launch their new album in August.

“[‘Imploding The Mirage’ was released] final August, we have now one other one popping out this August,” the drummer mentioned (you'll be able to watch this dialogue on the 43:00 mark beneath). “Properly, weirdly sufficient, we had this stockpile of songs that have been form of orphans off of the final report, however we’re saving these for the subsequent report.”

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Vannucci continued by describing the brand new album as being “very totally different from the conventional Killers stuff”.

“We as a substitute made one other report, which is a little bit of an idea report and really totally different from the conventional Killers stuff,” he mentioned about their forthcoming LP.

“So we nonetheless have that stockpile [of songs] left, and we’re nonetheless writing extra. It’s at all times good to have a couple of songs – or an album, even – mendacity round, simply in case.”

The Killers launched ‘Dustland’, their new collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, in a single day. The monitor is a brand new duet rendition of the band’s 2009 single ‘A Dustland Fairytale’, which featured on their 2008 album ‘Day & Age’.

You'll be able to learn NME‘s evaluation of The Killers and Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dustland’ right here.