Killers LP put together via email

The Killers have revealed that the majority of work on their new album Day & Age was done via email with producer Stuart Price.

Speaking to the AV Club, frontman Brandon Flowers said of the process: "It made it real fresh, I think. It was almost like pre-production was underway as soon as we hit 'send' on an idea. He'd send something back, and we'd all fight about it, or embrace about it, and then we met for a month and sealed the deal."

Flowers voiced his disappointment at not being the first artist to produce a record electronically. "I just read this article on that new [Brian] Eno and [David] Byrne record," he said. "They did exactly what we did. They emailed the whole thing, and then got together for two weeks and finished it. They beat us to the punch. We thought we were gonna be, you know, matadors."

Guitarist Dave Keuning noted that convenience was a key factor in assembling the album over a long distance with Price.

"Even when people live in the same town, you spend time apart," he explained. "But if you get a song idea at home, you can just email it. You don't have to leave your house. And they can hear it, they can play on it if they want to, they can mess around with it.

"And then when you're in the same room, you have a head start on what the song is."