Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has been talking about how great his band's new album is. Of course, on the evidence of the band's debut 'Hot Fuss', The Killers are entirely capable of producing a great album. Although, one of the best album of the past twenty years? He said it, look: "We just have to make the best album that we can. And we're doing it. This album is one of the best albums in the past 20 years. There's nothing that touches this album. And that sounds like I'm being cocky, but I'm just so excited."
He also explained some more about his previously reported crush on Bruce Springsteen, telling MTV: "I had something happen that I didn't ever think could happen. I fell in love with The Smiths and the Pet Shop Boys when I was 12 years old, and I never thought that could happen again. But after meeting a lot of those people, who were my heroes and idols, and seeing them onstage, something changed. We'd drawn large crowds, and it felt like we were getting to the same sort of place, and it made me feel like I couldn't look at those people in the same light anymore. And that was kind of sad, but then I had another one of those 12-year-old experiences when I was 23, but this time with Bruce Springsteen. And it was just - it was elation... He's a gift, and I didn't know. There was something in his music that touched what I was going through, the process of falling back in love with my America."
On Springsteen's influence on the new LP, due out in September, Flowers added: "Springsteen touches on the American dream, and that's everybody's dream. And it's such a great idea - whether or not it's still happening today. Most of the songs are about getting to that place, of making it to the promised land. And that idea runs through the record. It's very optimistic."