By Patrick Luce Jul 10, 2006, 21:54 GMT
Island recording group The Killers have completed the recording of their eagerly anticipated second album. Due to arrive in stores in October 3rd 2006, the as-yet- untitled new album will impact radio with lead single “When You Were Young” in July. The album was recorded in the new Palm Studios in The Killer’s hometown of Las Vegas - with venerable British producers Flood (Mark Ellis) and [Alan] Moulder. It marks a reunion of the duo who first came to prominence as the producers of Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995), and whose many credits as engineers, mixers and producers have gone on to include U2, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and Erasure (Flood); and Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and last year’s special Hot Fuss (Moulder).
The new album follows-up the phenomenal HOT FUSS, which was released in June 2004 and stayed the longest-running rock album inside the top 50 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for all of 2005, reaching #7 and eventually logging 53 weeks inside the Top 50 and 94 weeks on the Top 200.
On the strength of four solid hit singles – the Grammy-nominated #3 Modern Rock anthem of 2004, “Somebody Told Me,” the VMA-winning (and Grammy-nominated) “Mr. Brightside,” the Modern rock hit “Smile Like You Mean It,” and the Grammy-nominated “All These Things That I’ve Done”
The Killers – Brandon Flowers on vocals and keyboards, guitarist David Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer, and drummer Ronnie Vannucci – were the music industry’s top artist development story of 2004-2005. In August, the album was named to the “Long List” of first-round nominees from 11 countries for the Shortlist Music Prize, presented by XM and MTV2. In September, the Killers were nominated for Best New Act at Q magazine’s annual awards. In November, they won the Breaking Woodie (as “Freshman” Best Emerging Artist) at MTVU’s 1st annual Woodie Awards.
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