The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers said a new album the band had been working on has been scrapped in an interview
The band just released the synth-driven song âYour Side of Townâ on Friday, which was intended to be on a new album. However, the LP has been nixed.
âHalfway through recording I realised, âI canât do this,ââ Flowers told the publication. âThis isnât the kind of record. . .â He paused and added, âI think this will be the . . .â And then said, âI donât think youâll see us making this type of music any more.â
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The Killers most recent album Pressure Machine arrived in 2021, which leaned into Flowers and the bandâs rootsier side and the stories of small towns and the people who live there. Meanwhile, âYour Side of Townâ is more representative of the groupâs synth-pop hits side, which Flowers is grappling with.
âThis is the crisis Iâm in,â he said. âThe Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but Iâm more fulfilled making music like Pressure Machine. I found a side of myself writing it that was strong. This was the guy Iâd been looking for! Iâm as proud of Hot Fuss as you can be for something you did when you were 20, but Iâm not 20. So Iâm thinking about the next phase of my life.â
The singer, who is Mormon, also discussed religion
Flowers also discussed the recent incident at the Black Sea Arena in Batumi, Georgia, when the band invited a fan onstage to help perform the song âFor Reasons Unknownâ; the nightâs guest was revealed to be Russian (Georgia is partly occupied by Russia). The band drew boos after Flowers called Russians and Georgians âbrothers.â The band apologized shortly afterward.
Flowers told âWe 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. Weâre sad how this played out.â