Brandon Flowers Debuts New Song on 'Fallon,' Uses Piano to 'Sing' The Killers' New Album Update

Asked about the progress of The Killers' new album, Brandon Flowers didn't answer directly — instead, he sat down at the piano and sang his way through an update. It was the most unusual segment of his appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon': host Jimmy Fallon devised a "musical interview" where every question and answer had to be sung. Flowers crooned, "We've got some titles floating around," before half-jokingly adding that even if he knew the final album title, publicists would stop him from revealing it — "it's still too early."

Flowers took the stage on the night of September 22, primarily to perform "An American Dream," a country-flavored single off his third solo album, 'Thrasher.' The album, released just last month, features a lineup of veteran Nashville musicians, including guitarist David Rawlings, pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and harmonica player Charlie McCoy — whose playing appears on four of Bob Dylan's classic Nashville-era albums. Flowers told Fallon that recording sessions often kicked off with musicians swapping stories, with McCoy recounting tales of working with Dylan, Roy Orbison, Garth Brooks, and Waylon Jennings.

In an earlier interview with NME, Flowers described 'Thrasher' as his most personal album to date, saying he had finally reached a point where he "was able" to write about the harder-to-process parts of his childhood. He also revealed the album is the first of a two-part project — the second, a more "romantic" record, has already been recorded, which he described as a response to "loneliness pop."

As for The Killers' own new album, Flowers told NME last month that the whole band has been meeting on and off in Salt Lake City to write songs and work on demos. "It's the whole band," he said, adding that they're working with producers Ariel Rechtshaid and Shawn Everett, making progress "bit by bit."

Flowers is currently on tour for 'Thrasher,' and at a show in Salt Lake City earlier this month, he brought out his 15-year-old son Henry to duet on Oasis' "Don't Look Back In Anger." His UK and Ireland tour kicks off October 14 in Bournemouth, with stops including London's Royal Albert Hall, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, York, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Dublin.