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The guy from the Killers caught the country music bug. Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has released a couple of solo albums over the years, the most recent of which was 2015’s quietly excellent The Desired Effect<\/a><\/em>. We last heard from the Killers when they released Pressure Machine<\/a><\/em> in 2021. In 2023, Flowers said<\/a> that he’d scrapped an entire halfway-done Killers album. After teasing something new, Flowers is now ready to announce the new solo LP Thrasher<\/em>, which he’s explicitly framing as his “country\/western” album.<\/p>\n Lots of big stars have gone country over the past few years, as the genre’s popularity has boomed. But Flowers is a Mormon from Nevada who’s been wearing cowboy hats in public for at least two decades; this doesn’t seem that<\/em> out of character for him. Flowers recorded Thrasher<\/em> with two producers, Kacey Musgraves collaborator Shawn Everett <\/strong>and Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, at Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A last July.<\/p>\n Working on Thrasher<\/em>, Flowers brought in a number of legendary Nashville studio musicians, including Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings and 85-year-old harmonica great Charlie McCoy. In a mythic-looking album trailer, Flowers reaffirms his love of rock and new wave and continues, “I’ve unlocked a room that feels like it’s been waiting for me all along \u2014 country\/western music, my father’s music. It has offered itself to me, and the stories that I have to tell at the moment, with a breezy enthusiasm.” A press release claims that it’s inspired by Flowers’ childhood in Nephi, Utah.<\/p>\n Flowers hasn’t shared any of the songs from Thrasher<\/em> yet; lead single “Plans” is set to come out on Friday. But we hear a bit of one song in that album trailer, and it honestly just sounds like a Killers song with additional pedal steel. Works for me! Check out that trailer and the Thrasher<\/em> tracklist below.<\/p>\n