Wonderful Wonderful | ||||
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Studio album by The Killers | ||||
Released | September 22, 2017 | |||
Recorded | September 2016 – May 2017 | |||
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Length | 43:00 | |||
Label | Island | |||
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Wonderful Wonderful is the upcoming fifth studio album by American rock band The Killers. It is set to be released on September 22, 2017, by Island Records.
Brandon Flowers revealed in May 2015 that he and guitarist Dave Keuning were exchanging ideas for The Killers' fifth studio album. The four members reconvened in October 2015, a few months earlier than originally planned. The band began work on the album at their own Battle Born Studios and also rented houses in Joshua Tree National Park and San Diego. They briefly recorded with Ryan Tedder and other producers in Los Angeles before beginning work with Jacknife Lee, who had been recommended to them by U2 frontman Bono. Lee worked with the band between September 2016 and May 2017 at his home studio in Topanga, California, and at National SouthWestern Recording studios in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lee produced all tracks on the album alongside The Killers, with Additional Production by Erol Alkan on "The Man" and Stuart Price on "Out of My Mind".
The Killers enlisted Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) for a guitar part on "Have All the Songs Been Written?". Additionally, Flowers wrote the lyrics for "Some Kind of Love" over music by Brian Eno. Australian artist Alex Cameron contributed lyrics to the track "Run for Cover", which was originally written for the band's third studio album, Day & Age.
Starting on May 6, the band tweeted a series of photographs and short videos to tease the album's lead single, "The Man". Among the tweets was a photographs of Brandon Flowers wearing a silver jacket with gold lettering spelling out "The Man". On June 14, 2017, "The Man" was released as the lead single. BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac debuted the track as "Annie Mac's Hottest Record in the World". The music video for "The Man" was released on June 28, 2017 and features a cameo by former Mayor of Las Vegas and current First Gentleman of Las Vegas Oscar Goodman.