Brandon Flowers has scrapped The Killers’ new album.
The band unveiled new single ‘Your Aspect Of City’ final week, their first new music since 2022 standalone single ‘Boy’.
The 42-year-old singer and fellow full-time member, drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr, have been within the studio for classes with producers Stuart Value and Shawn Everett, however Brandon has determined to ditch the songs they’ve thus far as a result of it was going to be one other album of stadium rock songs.
In an interview with The Sunday Occasions newspaper, he stated: “Midway by means of recording I realised, ‘I can’t do that.’ This isn’t the form of document… I don’t assume you’ll see us making such a music any extra.”
The ‘Mr. Brightside’ hitmaker as an alternative plans to maneuver away from the sound of 2004 debut ‘Sizzling Fuss’, which made The Killers one of the standard bands on the earth.
He added: “I’m as happy with ‘Sizzling Fuss’ as you may be for one thing you probably did whenever you had been 20, however I’m not 20. So I’m fascinated with the following section of my life.
“It’s a battle. It’s simply, effectively, at what level do I make that change? Who within the band desires to try this too? It doesn’t matter what, there’ll all the time be individuals who have a look at me and simply consider Any person Advised Me. And I get that. However I’m all for evolving.”
On the weekend, The Killers headlined the Studying and Leeds Pageant and handled followers to a set full of their basic hits, together with ‘When You Had been Younger’, ‘Runaways’, ‘All These Issues That I’ve Finished’, ‘Human’ and ‘Mr. Brightside’.