When asked what he thought of The Killers' Sam's Town, singer Sam Endicott said he hadn't heard it, and while he didn't seem to really be ending the feud, he expressed regrets that it ever happened in the first place.
Sam said, "It all started when (Flowers) started talking shit about us, and we responded. Now, I just regret the whole thing even happened."
He then quickly changed the subject to The Bravery, and the intentional stylistic changes on The Sun & The Moon. Because he was concerned critics would pan the album if they did a re-tread of their "high energy" and "party" debut, they decided to explore other aspects of their sound. Sam noted, "So there's fast songs, slow songs, there are even a couple of acoustic songs. It's much more eclectic."
He admitted they did both albums quickly, in an amateur sort of way, but that's how the band is comfortable working. We wanted new sounds and new textures for this record," Endicott says. "So, we listened to a lot of music, mostly old classic rock, and picked up on the instruments - Marxophones, vintage organs, string sections - we really liked and just fucked around."
He then said they spent a lot of time "living" with the songs, to see how they worked, rather than just putting the album out and later regretting it -- noting that many bands do just that. They don't call it "the difficult second album" for no reason now, do they?
Anyway, The Bravery doesn't hate The Killers anymore. And Fall Out Boy doesn't hate The Killers anymore, either. Brandon Flowers hasn't really responded to either band, so one has to wonder if:
[a] He's planning an attack.
[b] He's picking new bands to fight with.
[c] He's moping that there's nobody left for him to fight with.
[d] He has better things to do than fight with bands.
Tough call; I'm guessing it's a mix of all four.
