The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers stated a brand new album the band had been engaged on has been scrapped in an interview with The Times.
The band simply launched the synth-driven music “Your Side of Town” on Friday, which was supposed to be on a brand new album. However, the LP has been nixed.
“Halfway through recording I realised, ‘I can’t do this,’” Flowers advised the publication. “This isn’t the kind of record. . .” He paused and added, “I think this will be the . . .” And then stated, “I don’t think you’ll see us making this type of music any more.”
The Killers most up-to-date album Pressure Machine arrived in 2021, which leaned into Flowers and the band’s rootsier facet and the tales of small cities and the individuals who dwell there. Meanwhile, “Your Side of Town” is extra consultant of the group’s synth-pop hits facet, which Flowers is grappling with.
“This is the crisis I’m in,” he stated. “The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I’m more fulfilled making music like Pressure Machine. I found a side of myself writing it that was strong. This was the guy I’d been looking for! I’m as proud of Hot Fuss as you can be for something you did when you were 20, but I’m not 20. So I’m thinking about the next phase of my life.”
The singer, who’s Mormon, additionally mentioned faith (“This makes me a bit of an enigma as a singer,” he stated of his robust religion and optimistic ideas on faith).
Flowers additionally mentioned the latest incident on the Black Sea Arena in Batumi, Georgia, when the band invited a fan onstage to assist carry out the music “For Reasons Unknown”; the evening’s visitor was revealed to be Russian (Georgia is partly occupied by Russia). The band drew boos after Flowers known as Russians and Georgians “brothers.” The band apologized shortly afterward.
“I had to calm an impossible situation,” Flowers advised The Times. “We want our concerts to be communal and I had no idea words I was taught my entire life to represent a unity of the human family could be taken as being pro-Russian occupation. We’re sad how this played out.”
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