{"id":2472349,"date":"2026-06-23T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2472349"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:09:49","slug":"killers-frontman-brandon-flowers-announces-new-solo-album-thrasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/killers-frontman-brandon-flowers-announces-new-solo-album-thrasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Killers frontman Brandon Flowers announces new solo album \u2018Thrasher\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Back in the day, Brandon Flowers dressed like a cowboy in the now-iconic clip for The Killers\u2019 \u201cAll These Things I\u2019ve Done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two decades later, he\u2019s come full circle, excavating his country roots on his just-announced new solo album, \u201cThrasher,\u201d his first in 11 years, out on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Flowers - THRASHER (Official Album Trailer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DIl1mjpHE0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Flowers - THRASHER (Official Album Trailer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DIl1mjpHE0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, at Historic RCA Studio A, where Dolly Parton tracked \u201cJolene,\u201d Elvis cut \u201cAre You Lonesome Tonight?\u201d and other greats like George Strait, Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson have laid down tracks over the years, \u201cThrasher\u201d features a decorated crew of <\/span>Music City notables, including longtime Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings on guitar, influential pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and 85-year-old harmonica player Charlie McCoy, who performed on all four of Bob Dylan\u2019s seminal Nashville records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrasher\u201d was produced by Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, the team behind the last two Killers albums, 2020\u2019s \u201cImploding the Mirage\u201d and 2021\u2019s \u201cPressure Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter record was set in the small town of Nephi, Utah, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neon.reviewjournal.com\/music\/the-killers-drop-new-album-about-utah-town-where-singer-lived-2418219\/\" target=\"_blank\">where Flowers spent a half-dozen of his formative years from age 10 to 16<\/a>. Its earthy, Americana bent, with mandolin, pedal steel and harmonica flourishes, and stories of the trials and tribulations of rural life in modern America tapped into a rich, personal vein of songwriting for Flowers, which informs \u201cThrasher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His dad\u2019s love of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings also played a role.<\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u201c<\/span>As I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve found my way back to my father\u2019s music \u2014 \u2018Country-Western\u2019 (as he called it) \u2014 and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition,\u201d Flowers says in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>As Flowers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neon.reviewjournal.com\/kats\/killers-frontman-hints-to-next-album-after-solo-spree-3327558\/\" target=\"_blank\">told The U.K. Sun this year<\/a>, he has a pair of solo albums complete, \u201cThrasher\u201d being the first, and expects a return with The Killers in 2027. <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Get a first taste of \u201cThrasher\u201d on Friday, when lead single \u201cPlans\u201d drops.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact Jason Bracelin at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neon.reviewjournal.com\/music\/killers-frontman-brandon-flowers-announces-new-country-western-album-3337819\/mailto:jbracelin@reviewjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\">jbracelin@reviewjournal.com<\/a> or 702-383-0476. Follow @jasonbracelin76 on Instagram.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source neon.reviewjournal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Brandon Flowers dressed like a cowboy in the now-iconic clip for The Killers\u2019 \u201cAll These Things I\u2019ve Done.\u201d Two decades later, he\u2019s come full circle, excavating his country roots on his just-announced new solo album, \u201cThrasher,\u201d his first in 11 years, out on Aug. 21. 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