Brandon Flowers reveals why he cannot listen to debut Killers album Hot Fuss

'I hear the songs on the radio and I quickly turn over the stations'

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Brandon Flowers has revealed that he can no longer listen to The Killers’ debut album because he “wishes he could go back and re-do things”.

The 34-year-old singer believes that despite 2004’s Hot Fuss capturing some “magic”, there is too much that he “doesn’t like” about his voice in the band’s early days.

“I hear the songs on the radio and I quickly turn over the stations, it’s an instinct,” he told Q magazine. “It’s not uncommon for people to hear things about their voice they don’t like, or the recordings. Everybody wishes they could go back and re-do things, but I acknowledge there was some magic captured”.

Flowers still backs Hot Fuss, which boasts festival hits “Mr Brightside” and “All These Things That I’ve Done”, to make the cut on ‘best debuts of the past 30 years’ lists, but admits other groups are more worthy of the accolade.

“I will say it’s one of them,” he said. “If you ask me, The Strokes’ debut [Is This It] is better. Guns N’ Roses’ debut [Appetite for Destruction] is better. But I do think we’re up there and I’m proud of it. Going back to The Strokes’ debut, that was a real driving force for us. I really wanted to beat it.”

The Killers are currently working on their fifth album, with Elton John recently flying to Las Vegas to join them in the studio.