He’s gone country! Killers frontman Brandon Flowers revealed this week that he went to Nashville and tapped into the country music tradition for his new solo album Thrasher. To my colleague Tom Breihan, the music in the album trailer sounded like a Killers song with more pedal steel, but I was pretty taken aback by how much it resembled a country ballad from the old-time Nashville studio system. Now there’s a single that continues to up the twang quotient.
“Plans,” the lead single from Thrasher, is out now. Flowers is the only credited writer, and like the rest of the album, it’s produced by Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, both of whom worked on the last two Killers albums, 2020’s Imploding The Mirage and 2021’s Pressure Machine. Those guys threw in so many country touches here, from banjo to harmonica to swooning orchestral strings. Flowers’ momentous voice translates extremely well to this genre; here, he uses it to reflect on the timeless subject of how time’s crucible alters our best-laid plans.
Listen below, where you’ll also find Flowers’ recently announced tour dates.
TOUR DATES:
09/01 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
09/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford Theatre
09/05 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
09/07 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
09/08 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
09/09 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox
09/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte
09/12 – Denver, CO @ Ogden
09/15 – St Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
09/16 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theatre
09/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
09/20 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
09/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
09/23 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
09/24 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
10/02 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
10/06 – Las Vegas, NV @ Wynn Encore Theater
10/14 – Bournemouth, UK @ Bournemouth O2 Academy
10/15 – London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall
10/17 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
10/18 – Nottingham, UK @ Nottingham Rock City
10/20 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo Manchester
10/21 – York, UK @ Barbican
10/23 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
10/24 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham
10/27 – Dublin, Ire @ Olympia Theatre
Thrasher is out 8/21 on Island.
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