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Brandon Flowers has said he feels his current solo album The Desired Effect should have been The Killers' second record Sam's Town.
Flowers released his second solo LP The Desired Effect this week which followed 2010's Flamingo and The Killers' 2012 album Battle Born. In a new interview with BBC, Flowers said his fans have been eagerly awaiting the singer's plunge into pop-based music which the new LP entails with production from Ariel Rechtshaid and guest vocals from The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Danielle of Haim.
The singer explained: "when I started doing interviews, I realised I'd made The Killers' second record...I mean, I made what we were supposed to do on our second album, but we never gave anybody that pleasure. We threw everyone a little bit with Sam's Town."
Upon straying from being viewed as a popstar Flowers said, "sometimes you want to be more macho and you want the word 'rock' next to your name. But I'm not ashamed of it or anything. I love pop music. And I definitely have a knack for it."
Listen to Brandon Flowers' 'Lonely Town' from The Desired Effect below:
Flowers kicks off his massive European tour this week which will see him stopping off for two nights at London's Brixton Academy with support from Joywave. Full dates are below. For tickets and more information, visit here.
Brandon Flowers will play:
Europe
May 19, 2015 - Olympia Theatre - Dublin, Ireland
May 21, 2015 - O2 Academy Brixton - London, England, United Kingdom
May 22, 2015 - O2 Academy Brixton - London, England, United Kingdom
May 24, 2015 - Academy- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
May 25, 2015 - Usher Hall - Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 26, 2015 - O2 Academy - Leeds, England, United Kingdom
May 28, 2015 - O2 Academy - Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
May 29, 2015 - Le Trianon Hall - Paris, France
May 31, 2015 - Huxley’s - Berlin, Germany
June 1, 2015 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 2, 2015 - Ancienne Belgique - Brussels, Belgium
June 3, 2015 - E-Werk - Cologne, Germany
June 5, 2015 - Fabrique - Milan, Italy
June 7, 2015 - Debaser Medis - Stockholm, Sweden
