The killers leader Brandon Flowers said a new album the band was working on was dropped in an interview with The temperature.

The band just released the synthesized song “Your side of townon Friday, which was to appear on a new album. However, the LP was cancelled.

“Halfway through the recording, I realized, ‘I can’t do this,'” Flowers told the publication. “It’s not the kind of record. . .” He paused and added, “I think it will be . . .” And then he said, “I don’t think you’ll see us doing this type of music in the future. »

The Killers’ last album pressure machine arrived in 2021, which relied on Flowers and the more rootsy side of the band and the stories of small towns and the people who live there. Meanwhile, “Your Side of Town” is more representative of the side of the band’s synth-pop hits, which Flowers grapples with.

“This is the crisis I find myself in,” he said. “The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I’m more fulfilled making music like pressure machine. I discovered a side of myself while writing it that was strong. He was the guy I was looking for! I’m also proud of A hot bustle like 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.

The singer, who is a Mormon, also spoke about religion (“It makes me a bit enigmatic as a singer,” he said of his strong faith and positive thoughts about religion).

Flowers also touched on the recent incident at Black Sea Arena in Batumi, Georgia, when the band invited a fan onstage to help perform the song “For Reasons Unknown”; the guest of the evening turned out to be Russian (Georgia is partly occupied by Russia). The group was booed after Flowers called Russians and Georgians “brothers”. The group apologized shortly after.

“I had to calm down an impossible situation,” Flowers said. The temperature. “We want our concerts to be communal and I had no idea that the words I have been taught all my life to represent the unity of the human family could be considered a pro-Russian occupation. We are sad about how it turned out.