Brandon Flowers Nixes New Killers LP ‘Midway By Recording’ – Rolling Stone

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers mentioned 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 music “Your Aspect of City” on Friday, which was meant to be on a brand new album. Nevertheless, the LP has been nixed.

“Midway by way of recording I realised, ‘I can’t do that,’” Flowers instructed the publication. “This isn’t the form of file. . .” He paused and added, “I believe this would be the . . .” After which mentioned, “I don’t assume you’ll see us making such a music any extra.”

The Killers most up-to-date album Strain 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 mentioned. “The Killers are my identification and our songs fill the seats, however I’m extra fulfilled making music like Strain Machine. I discovered a facet of myself writing it that was robust. This was the man I’d been searching for! I’m as happy with Scorching Fuss as you could be for one thing you probably did once you had been 20, however I’m not 20. So I’m interested by the following 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 mentioned of his robust religion and optimistic ideas on faith).

Flowers additionally mentioned the current incident on the Black Sea Enviornment in Batumi, Georgia, when the band invited a fan onstage to assist carry out the music “For Causes Unknown”; the night time’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 needed to calm an not possible scenario,” Flowers instructed The Instances. “We wish our live shows to be communal and I had no concept phrases I used to be taught my total life to symbolize a unity of the human household may very well be taken as being pro-Russian occupation. We’re unhappy how this performed out.”