On Friday, the Killers released the synth-heavy new song "Your Side of Town" (featuring artwork with shocking levels of "graphic design is my passion" energy) that somewhat harkened back to their Hot Fuss era while also kinda sounding like the new, strobe-lit Strokes.
That song was intended to be the harbinger of a new Killers album, but it turns out the band have since thrown that album-to-be out the window. In a new profile in The Times, Brandon Flowers said, "Halfway through recording I realized, 'I can't do this.' I don't think you'll see us making this type of music anymore."
"This is the crisis I'm in," he continued. "The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I'm more fulfilled making music like 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."
Flowers also addressed the recent incident in partially-Russian-occupied Georgia, when he unwittingly invited a Russian fan to the stage and asked the crowd if the man was their brother after they began booing.
"I had to calm an impossible situation," he told The Times. "We want our concerts to be communal and I had no idea words I was taught my entire life to represent a unity of the human family could be taken as being pro-Russian occupation. We're sad how this played out."
Listen to "Your Side of Town" below.
That song was intended to be the harbinger of a new Killers album, but it turns out the band have since thrown that album-to-be out the window. In a new profile in The Times, Brandon Flowers said, "Halfway through recording I realized, 'I can't do this.' I don't think you'll see us making this type of music anymore."
"This is the crisis I'm in," he continued. "The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I'm more fulfilled making music like 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."
Flowers also addressed the recent incident in partially-Russian-occupied Georgia, when he unwittingly invited a Russian fan to the stage and asked the crowd if the man was their brother after they began booing.
"I had to calm an impossible situation," he told The Times. "We want our concerts to be communal and I had no idea words I was taught my entire life to represent a unity of the human family could be taken as being pro-Russian occupation. We're sad how this played out."
Listen to "Your Side of Town" below.
