It was only ever a matter of time that a group would emerge from SinĬity to wipe the slate ceremoniously clean, giving the inhabitants of that Nevadan outpost some fresh hope and an escape from their culturally underperforming past. When you survey previous exports from the city of Las Vegas: an assortment of suspect hair metal bands one-hit wonder Toni Basil err.
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And out of that silence this record began to bloom, full of songs that would have otherwise been too quiet and drowned out by the noise of typical Killers records."īrandon Flowers (vocals/keyboards), David Keuning (guitar), Mark Stoermer (bass), and Ronnie Vannucci (drums) took the fashionista pop world by storm in summer 2004 with "Somebody Told Me. “And it was the first time in a long time for me that I was faced with silence. “Everything came to this grinding halt,” explained Flowers.
The tour was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and they found themselves with time to dedicate to writing and recording a new record. The band made the album during the time they were scheduled to be touring their previous release, Imploding The Mirage. I’ve got more understanding now than when we started the band, and hopefully I was able to do justice to these stories and these lives in this little town that I grew up in.” But the ones tied to fear or great sadness were emotionally charged. “Many memories of my time in Nephi are tender.
“I discovered this grief that I hadn’t dealt with," Flowers said about the town in a statement. And for Brandon Flowers, it meant new songwriting inspiration could flourish.īrandon Flowers writes about the memories and stories of the people there that impacted him growing up, and the album's songs are interspersed with commentary from Nephi locals about the town. For the first time since 2004, things properly slowed down. The album was co-produced by the band, Shawn Everett, and Jonathan Rado (of Foxygen), all of whom worked together on The Killers’ critically-acclaimed album Imploding The Mirage, released last year.įollowing on from their 2020 record Imploding The Mirage, The Killers’ new material was born out of the band’s inability to tour. The Killers will release their seventh studio album, entitled Pressure Machine, on Island Records on August 13, 2021.