Battle Born by The Killers

Battle Born, the Killers' fourth album, came out in September 2012, on Vertigo in the UK and on Island in the States a day later. The name comes off the Nevada state flag, and it's also what the band calls its own studio, where most of the album was cut. Coming back from an extended break, Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. spread the work across five producers: Steve Lillywhite, Damian Taylor, Brendan O'Brien, Stuart Price and Daniel Lanois.

What comes out is the band at its most unashamedly big-hearted, all desert-highway drama and surging choruses, with Flowers singing like the whole state is listening. "Runaways" was the one that tore up the countdowns, with "Miss Atomic Bomb" close behind. Like every Killers studio album, it went to number one in the UK.

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