The Killers will launch the brand new single ‘Your Aspect Of City’ on Friday (25.08.23)
The Killers will return with the brand new track ‘Your Aspect Of City’ later this week
Brandon Flowers and co had teased a clip for a brand new music video earlier this week, and now they’ve confirmed the arrival of a brand new synth-led monitor later this week.
Taking to X to share the pre-save hyperlink for the tune, they wrote: “Good day everybody, with a lot pleasure we current you with Your Aspect of City. It’s obtained the ghosts of plenty of synth music that impressed us through the years. And but in some way feels utterly our personal. Now it’s yours! Flip it up.”
The Killers have not launched a track since August 2022’s standalone ‘Boy’.
The group’s new music announcement comes days after they brought on controversy and had been pressured to apologise after Brandon instructed an viewers in Georgia {that a} Russian fan was their “brother”.
The ‘Smile Like You Imply It’ hitmakers had been booed in direction of the tip of their present in Batumi final Tuesday (15.08.23) after inviting a person to play drums with them throughout ‘For Causes Unknown’ in direction of the tip of the present and revealed to the gang within the former Soviet state that he was from the neighbouring nation, which invaded them in 2008.
In video footage circulating on-line, Brandon stated to a mix of cheers and boos: “We don’t know the etiquette of this land however this man’s a Russian. You OK with a Russian developing right here?”
After the track, the 42-year-old singer was booed once more when he raised the topic a second time.
He stated: “You possibly can’t recognise if somebody’s your brother? He’s not your brother?
“All of us separate on the borders of our international locations … Am I not your brother, being from America?”
Brandon urged the viewers to have a good time “that we’re right here collectively”.
He added: “I don’t need it to show ugly. And I see you as my brothers and my sisters.”
Mariam Nikuradze, a Georgian journalist, claimed on X followers had left after the track, and whereas the band completed their set, they did not say goodbye to the viewers on the finish of the present.
Following the outcry, the band issued an announcement apologising and insisted they hadn’t meant to offend anybody.
They stated within the message, which was shared to their social channels: “Good individuals of Georgia, it was by no means our intention to offend anybody!
“We’ve got a longstanding custom of inviting individuals to play drums and it appeared from the stage that the preliminary response from the gang indicated that they had been okay with tonight’s viewers participation member coming onstage with us.
“We recognise {that a} remark, meant to recommend that the entire Killers’ viewers and followers are ‘brothers and sisters’ could possibly be misconstrued. We didn’t imply to upset anybody and we apologise. We stand with you and hope to return quickly.”