The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers says he has scrapped the band’s new album halfway through.The band returned this week with new single ‘Your Side Of Town’, which marked the band’s first single of the year, as well as their first release since last year’s standalone single ‘Boy’.However, in a new interview with The Times, Flowers has revealed that the band’s planned new album has been scrapped.“Halfway through recording I realised, ‘I can’t do this,’” Flowers said, adding: “This isn’t the kind of record… I think this will be the… I don’t think you’ll see us making this type of music any more.”He added: “This is the crisis I’m in.
The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I’m more fulfilled making music like [2021 album] ‘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.”Of the band’s future, he went on: “I’m a different person now, it’ll be difficult to go back,” adding that he wants to make quieter music for smaller venues.“It is a conflict,” he added. “It is just, well, at what point do I make that change?
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