Brandon Flowers announces new country-western album Thrasher

The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has announced a new country-western album.

Thrasher, his first solo album in 11 years, will be released on August 21.

The singer-songwriter will build anticipation for the full multi-track with the release of ‘Plans’, the lead single from the record, on June 26.

The album features David Rawlings on guitar, Bruce Bouton on pedal steel and 85-year-old Charlie McCoy, the harmonica player who featured on all four of Bob Dylan’s iconic Nashville records.

“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found my way back to my father’s music - ‘Country-Western’ (as he’d call it) - and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition,” Flowers said.

The announcement of a new country album marks another shift in the evolution of his sound from the post-punk, new wave of the Killers' early days to 80s inspired records like the solo album The Desired Effect or The Killers’ Imploding the Mirage.

“I don’t think you’ll see us making this type of music anymore,” Flowers told The Times in 2023 in reference to The Killers' early records. “This is the crisis I’m in. The Killers are my identity and our songs fill the seats, but I’m more fulfilled making music like Pressure Machine. I found a strong side of myself in writing it. This was the guy I’d been looking for!"

Pressure Machine, The Killers’ most recent album, released in 2021, marked another sonic shift in the band's sound, to something more intimate and restrained.

"No matter what, there will always be people who look at me and just think of 'Somebody Told Me',” Flowers continued. And I get that. But I’m interested in evolving.”

Check out the track list below:

'Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?'
'One Of Us'
'Tiger’s Blood'
'Plans'
'Paradise'
'Miss America'
'Angel'
'The Red Ground'
'In A Heartbeat'
'An American Dream'