Just as The Killers dropped their brand new single “Your Side Of Town” last week, frontman Brandon Flowers revealed that he chose to ditch the band’s new album plans halfway through its creation.
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Speaking with the U.K.'s The Times in a new interview, The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers divulged that although plenty more new music from the group was in the works, “Halfway through recording I realised, ‘I can’t do this,’” adding of their latest single, “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 anymore.”
“This is the crisis I’m in,” Brandon continued. “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.”
Flowers told us on the release day of their latest single that although they would have liked to have released something sooner between 2022's "boy," and "Your Side Of Town," they're "really happy" with the way it turned out. Additionally, while not at liberty to discuss exactly what is on the horizon for the band as "it may throw people for a loop," Flowers said he believes more details will be coming in "about a month or so."
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In his chat with The Times, Flowers explained further, saying, of the band’s future, "I’m a different person now, it’ll be difficult to go back... It is a conflict,” he admits. “It is just, well, at what point do I make that change? Who in the band wants to do that too? No matter what, there will always be people who look at me and just think of 'Somebody Told Me.' And I get that. But I’m interested in evolving.”
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