The Killers have said that they scrapped their planned new album because it didn’t feel “authentic”.Speaking to The Sun newspaper frontman Brandon Flowers and co said the new sound “just didn’t feel right” and they decided to stop making the album they’d planned.He told the newspaper: “It just didn’t feel authentic.
It felt like we were forcing something. We love synth music, it’s a part of our DNA and there’s been great contributions from us in that genre.“And man, we love New Order and Depeche Mode, so it’s not a slight.
It just doesn’t feel right for us at this moment.”Flowers had previously opened up about scrapping an entire Killers album after previously promising new music: “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.
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