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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<\/em>. To my colleague Tom Breihan, the music in the album trailer<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n “Plans,” the lead single from Thrasher<\/em>, 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<\/em> and 2021’s Pressure Machine<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n Listen below, where you’ll also find Flowers’ recently announced tour dates.<\/p>\n