Dropping his first solo full length in more than ten years, Brandon Flowers has moved into the country music space with Thrasher.
Courtesy of Island Records, The Killers frontman confirmed his latest project will be available on August 21.Recorded in Nashville, with his longtime producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, Flowers drew upon Americana and Western traditions for his latest repertoire.
Stating that his dad often used to listen to the likes of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, Brandon said “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found my way back to my father’s music – ‘Country-Western’ (as he called it) – and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition.”
Preempting the 10-track LP, the first single, ‘Plans,’ will be available on Friday. ‘One Of Us,’ is a tribute to his late brother-in-law, while ‘Miss America’ reflects on ’80s shopping mall pageants and “fraught early childhood memories”.
A formal press release about the project states “In the end, Thrasher is a heartfelt and adventurous document of all the people Flowers has known and loved and feared, but also a portrait of a man making peace with himself and the places, sights, and sounds that made him.” “Much of Thrasher features songs written in persona thinly veiling stories about Flowers’s friends and family from his teenage years until now, all rendered with the balance of sadness and humor inherent to country music.”
Now 45-years old, Flowers released his second solo studio album, The Desired Effect, in 2015, while The Killers’ seventh studio album, Pressure Machine, dropped in 2021.
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Author: Al Dente
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