Brandon Flowers speaks with NME in the May 9, 2015 issue.

I will update this post with any new information after I’ve had a chance to read the interview.

Summary:

- Eve Barlow spoke with Brandon while he was in California for his show at The Troubadour in West Hollywood last month.

- Darren Beckett states that Flowers has “rehearsed the band to a ‘supremely high level of musicianship’”.

- Flowers states that Dave Keuning is currently living in San Diego, as was the case during the first hiatus The Killers took between ‘Day & Age’ and ‘Battle Born’.

- Evidently, the idea behind ‘The Desired Effect’ is “to be accessible but sophisticated, gunning full-throttle for drivetime airplay.”

- Bruce Hornsby plays keys on ‘Between You and Me’.

- Barlow states the record feels like a natural successor to ‘Hot Fuss’.

- Evidently Rechtshaid stayed away from the more Americana-sounding demos he and Flowers came up with; more Duran Duran and less Springsteen.

- ‘Dreams Come True’ is a reflection on how he saw America during his twenties with the success of ‘Hot Fuss’.

- Flowers states that his ‘best lyrics ever’ are found in ‘The Way It’s Always Been’.

- The reason behind Flowers firing Rechtshaid ‘four times’ was due to Rechtshaid’s refusal to move to Las Vegas to work on the record until it was completed.

- There is an unfinished song about a veteran dealing with post-tramatic stress disorder called ‘Look Alive’ that Flowers regrets not finishing. It’s not clear when this song was started and abandoned.

- States The Killers will make another record because they know ‘Battle Born’ wasn’t good enough.

- ‘The Desired Effect’ will be reviewed in the next issue of NME.