The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers stated a brand new album the band had been engaged on has been scrapped in an interview with The Instances.
The band simply launched the synth-driven tune “Your Aspect of City” on Friday, which was supposed to be on a brand new album. Nonetheless, the LP has been nixed.
“Midway by means of recording I realised, ‘I can’t do that,’” Flowers advised the publication. “This isn’t the sort of file. . .” He paused and added, “I feel this would be the . . .” After which stated, “I don’t suppose you’ll see us making one of these music any extra.”
The Killers most up-to-date album Stress 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. In the meantime, “Your Aspect of City” is extra consultant of the group’s synth-pop hits facet, which Flowers is grappling with.
“That is the disaster I’m in,” he stated. “The Killers are my id and our songs fill the seats, however I’m extra fulfilled making music like Stress Machine. I discovered a facet of myself writing it that was robust. This was the man I’d been searching for! I’m as pleased with Sizzling Fuss as you may be for one thing you probably did while you had been 20, however I’m not 20. So I’m excited about the subsequent part of my life.”
The singer, who’s Mormon, additionally mentioned faith (“This makes me a little bit of an enigma as a singer,” he stated of his robust religion and constructive ideas on faith).
Flowers additionally mentioned the latest incident on the Black Sea Enviornment in Batumi, Georgia, when the band invited a fan onstage to assist carry out the tune “For Causes Unknown”; the evening’s visitor was revealed to be Russian (Georgia is partly occupied by Russia). The band drew boos after Flowers referred to as Russians and Georgians “brothers.” The band apologized shortly afterward.
“I needed to calm an unimaginable state of affairs,” Flowers advised The Instances. “We wish our concert events to be communal and I had no concept phrases I used to be taught my complete life to signify a unity of the human household could possibly be taken as being pro-Russian occupation. We’re unhappy how this performed out.”
